German, Baltic Sea-based Kristin Schnell’s practice explores the fragile relationship between humans and the natural world. Schnell (b. 1968) photographs birds that were once neglected or abused, which now live in the artist’s countryside sanctuary. Placed within staged environments, the birds act as a subject and a metaphor, reflecting on ideas of freedom, care, and confinement, addressing the vulnerability that birds and humans share in contemporary life. Birds on Stage 13A captures a bird caught between a staged geometry of shapes, underlining the artificial worlds into which birds are often placed in captivity.