Yinghui Meng
About
This project explores how Psittacula krameria redefines ecological power relations in the context of being perceived as an ‘invader’.
I tell the story of how it survives, resists and adapts in controlled environments, eventually taking root in the urban ecology.Through multi-layered imagery, the project explores the complex relationship between surveillance, power, ecological adaptation and resistance. In the face of man’s delusion of controlling the ecology, they succeed in becoming the interlocutors of the urban wild ecology. Its call becomes a symbol of post-colonial nature, telling the story of environmental change and the complexity of ecological adaptation, while protesting against the perpetuation of human ecological control.
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