The exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum blends contemporary artworks, pop culture memorabilia and historical depictions to explore how people have loved and hated these winged mammals through the ages.
On view in PEM's"Bats!" exhibit, Tony Rubino’s “Love Hate Bat” captures the strong, conflicted emotions that bats have evoked. exhibition that celebrates creatures of the night
“Oh, they are so misunderstood. We have all kinds of fears about bats that are not based in reality,” she said. “They will not get caught in your hair. They are truly our allies. They are superheroes without capes.”Winchell set out to prove that through this exhibition, titled “Bats!” . She studied them for her graduate degree in biology and directs PEM's Art & Nature Center. For her, the show is something of an empathy campaign for these mysterious, nocturnal creatures.
Left: Woodblock print depicting witches making offerings to the devil, from Laurence Price's "The Witch of the Woodlands; or the Cobler's New Translation" . Right: A reproduction of "The Witches of Warboyse" Frontispiece illustration from Richard Boulton's "A compleat history of magick, sorcery, and witchcraft," 1715.
These are some of the reasons why Winchell calls them superheroes. But most of the world's bat species are in decline, including the little brown bat that's been decimated by White Nose Syndrome in Massachusetts. Bats are also vulnerable to climate change and deforestation. Winchell added some people eradicate bat colonies thinking they're pests.
LaFosse, who's also a biologist, finds bats fascinating. He has studied their forms and faces for decades. His first origami piece was a life-like vampire bat, which is also in the show. A local veterinarian with bat expertise is on-call, and Art & Nature Center staff members have been trained to feed the bats. As program specialist, Nathan Peddie prepared to give them a mid-morning snack of bananas."I never really interacted with bats up until this point," he said."They were never really something I saw or even thought about outside of pop culture. So it is very interesting to see them so close now.
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