ROBERT ZHAO RENHUI 赵仁辉
b. 1983, works and lives in Singapore
This albatross specimen was caught accidentally by a Taiwanese fishing boat on July 4th, 2016, in the South Pacific Ocean, about 9,300 km from Taiwan. The bird was brought back to Taiwan by a marine researcher assigned by the Fisheries Agency to work with offshore fishing vessels in the South Pacific. Albatrosses are known to follow fishing vessels for an easy meal on baited fishing lines, but are often hooked and dragged into the water as the lines go deeper into the ocean. Up to 300,000 seabirds are killed by fishing boats annually.
Related Exhibitions:
Taipei Biennial 2018,
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
11.17, 2018
-03.10, 2019
Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis), Javan Myna (Acridotheres javanicus), Crested Myna (Acridotheres cristatellus)
3rd August 2018, Taiwan Whistling Thrush, Juvenile, Fallen out of Nest, Unable to Stand, Near a Home, Taipei
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