Michele Di Menna (CAN)

This piece of cod passeth understanding

Opening March 12, 2016 6–10PM
March 12–March 31, 2016

A part of the exhibition series Intercalating the Drift. Solo exhibitions by Mirak Jamal, George Rippon and Michele Di Menna accumulate into a group exhibition that is both collaboration and divergent singular works. For full information about the series, please click here.

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Changing colours the deeper it swims
The fish that tastes like fish but isn’t too fishy
An easy catch.
Submissively hooked
pulled up and out of context.
Enter the world
on the surface.
their silver sheen fades.

"I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it." — Edvard Grieg

John Pontius says the best way to wean customers off cod might be to change the name of Cape Cod altogether. His suggestion? Cape Dogfish.

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In Cod We Trust, 2016
taxidermy cod skin, gold leaf, digital colour print, acrylic on canvas
70 x 90 cm

Untitled, 2016
cod ear bones, taxidermy cod eyes, taxidermy cod fin, gold leaf, acrylic on canvas
70 x 90 cm

All that glitters is not gold, 2016
taxidermy cod skin, gold leaf, gouache, acrylic on canvas
70 x 90 cm

Untitled, 2016
taxidermy cod skin, gold leaf, gouache, acrylic on canvas
70 x 90 cm

Undercurrent, 2016
digital video with sound, 15:10 min.