Explor ing the complex relationship between the human and animal worlds\, Eleanor Morgan's practice examines empathy in light of cultural and personal politi cs. The artist writes\, we can only understand animals as metaphors for our own behavior\, so there is a constant attempt and failure to connect. For Morgan\, animals are shifting\, sticky objects of investigation. Her proces s of engagement with her subject is an activity that hinges on the human ne ed to personify the natural world\, and her emphasis on the processual aspe cts of her animal encounters yields work that entangle subjectivities. Infl uenced by the writing of W.G. Sebald\, whose web-like narratives operate so mewhere between fiction and document\, Morgan's artistic process is part re search\, part memory\, and part desire.
Her most recent work\, The Pu ffin Hunter\, is a documentary film that follows a hunter on his solo trek to lure\, capture\, and kill mature puffins in a dramatic\, remote Icelandi c landscape. The harvesting activity forces viewers to question notions of nature\, necessity\, and empathy. Pointing to a triangulated experience bet ween the birds\, the hunter\, and the observer\, The Puffin Hunter elicits a potential response of conflicted emotion\, clinical observation\, and a c onsideration of the sublime.
Eleanor Morgan lives and works in London \, UK. Since graduating from the University of British Columbia with her MF A in 2004\, she has shown her work at the Or Gallery\, Vancouver\; Site Gal lery\, Sheffield\; Soap Factory\, Minneapolis\; Lieu Unique\, Nantes\; Cast lefield Gallery\, Manchester\; SIM\, Reykjavik\; and Area 10 Project Space\ , London.
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