Franco Perrotti’s pigeon is an allegory, both a point of convergence between consumer civilization and the natural environment and a mediocre scavenger of others’ debris, representing the renunciation of looking “beyond” in exchange for a pre-cooked tranquility. Thus, it becomes a huge urban fetish, a construct of intersections of wire bristling with nails and spikes, the same used to keep it away from roofs and cornices. A mocking and paradoxical deterrent for humans.