Galerie Barbara Thumm

Courtesy the artist and Galerie Barbara Thumm/ Photo Jens Ziehe

We are honoured to present Poems for Helicopter Blades by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, a founding member of the gallery. In Poems for Helicopter Blades, Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press continues to explore language, conflict and gender through a range of media. The exhibition unfolds through a series of new video and sound sculptures constructed around parts of fighter aircraft. The film La Fin / Runway projected onto the cockpit windscreen of a Jaguar aircraft , recalls the innocence of early cinema more than the uber-tech of contemporary warfare. The screen was once the huge eye of…