2014 flying fishes

Grindelwald Forest / Switzerland

«If we start to laugh, it means that the idea is working.»
Gabriele Meneguzzi

— Looking at the stream water, we thought about the “stupidity” of the salmons that return from the sea against the rivers with unbearable efforts, challenging insurmountable difficulties such as waterfalls and fierce predators like bears, just to reproduce, and, then, dye, exhausted. A solution was needed. This work tells of a fun, intelligent, though “against nature” rebellion represented by the darting of fishes outside the water, no longer against but in favour of the current, huddling in a liberating flight to return to the sea and escape their tragic destiny.

Dimensions
N. 125 fishes
Length: from 80cm to 1m
Extension of the work: 28m

Materials
Branches of peeled bark
Bark rush (fish fixing)