Simon Cunningham’s work is poetical and playful. He creates images that are in a state of flux, that are wrestling with one another or merging together to create new meanings. Duckrabbit, a hybrid of a rabbit head and duck beak, does just this. The sculpture was created in a response to philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s belief that resemblance can obscure our perception: we see with the mind as well as with the eye. Duckrabbit challenges our perception, it offers us two ways of seeing something but gives us no answers.
SIMON CUNNINGHAM
Duck bill, rabbit head, plinth, vitrine
Acquired in 2009
