Manish Pushkale

Conceived as a voyage of initiation, the installation, To Whom the Bird Should Speak?, evokes the fragility of conserving intangible heritage and the vulnerability of a culture in the face of rapid global change. In this visual, abstract work, the artist recreates "bird song", a lost oral language of the Bo tribe, whose last speaker, Boa Sr., died out in 2010. A maze of screens, three metres high and nineteen metres long, forms a fragile labyrinthine architecture in which visitors are invited to wander.