‘67 Bows’ video by artist Nira Pereg presents pretty and disturbing metaphor for violence
The piece is called "67 Bows," and when I first heard the name I thought of ribbons and party dresses, something sugary and pretty and pink. Pretty and pink, at least, was on the mark. The work, a 2006 video by the Israeli artist Nira Pereg that goes on view this week at the Hirshhorn's Black Box, is about flamingos.
Pretty and pink, in a chattering, murmuring herd, the flamingos stalk on stalklike legs through the watery shallows of their enclosure. (The film was made in Karlsruhe, Germany; Pereg lives in Tel Aviv and Berlin.) Their "bows" are not ribbons, but physical actions: a lowering of the upper body, generally accepted in human society as a sign of courtliness or of submission. The flamingos bow in apparent unison, retracting their long necks together at intervals as if choreographed.
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