Jane Hughes & Taru Kallio
VULPICIDE /CITYCIDE

Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki
19.6. – 7.7.2013

VULPICIDE /CITYCIDE is an exploration of wilderness, delusion and delirium in the city environment through drawing and installation. Large scale drawings encircle the spectator, confronted with harsh lines and raw emotions, the vibrations of the cityscape emerge through the immediacy of mark making dispersed between foxes who yearn for the rebellion of nature. The term vulpicide means killer of a fox.

The work for the exhibition has evolved through an organic merging of the two artists practices Jane Hughes and Taru Kallio both concerned with similar tensions between the urban environment and ‘nature’ or supposed natural environment. The architecture of Berlin and its many urban foxes are the source material for the one- minute charcoal animation Vulpicide(2013), where both artists work simultaneously laboriously drawing frame by frame in a merging of consciousness creating an evolving charcoal thought stream of a surrealist nature.

Vulpicide I (2013) The architecture of Berlin and its many urban foxes are the source material for the one- minute charcoal animation, where both artists work at the same time laboriously drawing frame by frame in a merging of consciousness creating an evolving charcoal thought stream of a surrealist nature. It was part of Vulpicide/Citycide exhibition at Sorbus Galleria, Helsinki, (2013)

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Vulpicide II (2015) was created in response to poignant fox screams of both abandoned and active fox fur farms that linger in Ostrobothnia region of Finland, where the artist completed a residency in 2015.