Fauna features selections of a photo and video archive of fantastic insects (video shorts, stills, installed as tiny projections) that Fiona considers
a collaboration with other species. This archive was shot over a period of 6 years during the re-wilding of Orbitas, Fiona Bowie's artist residency and re-emergent jungle in Costa Rica.
Fauna is a mosaic of looping video vignettes of the flora and fauna, mostly insects, that re-populated Orbitas
over the 11 year period that Bowie worked on restoration of the once-clear cut site. They are back-projected through ovoid screen portals
by micro projectors mounted on shelves behind a false wall.
The vignettes vary in length, some up to 5 minutes long with others compilations of short clips. Some are made up of live shots, while others
are made up of still images. Each live clip has diegetic sound marking the environs and any music, animal, bird or insect sounds when the
footage was captured, creating a micro cacophony of sound.
Examples of vignettes:
Examples of longer moving image vignettes:
Examples of shorter moving image vignettes:
An example of still image vignettes:
(you can see and read about the restoration project in more detail here: The Flats, here:
Plano Verde and here Orbitas)
Fauna
(2016-21)
