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Hairline Crack [a dialogue]
Centre Culturel Irlandais, France
3 February – 26 March 2023
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Germany
8 October 2022 – 8 January 2023
Hairline Crack [A Dialogue] emerges from the 100 year anniversary of the institutionalisation of a border on the island of Ireland, the establishment of the separation between North and South. In my art practice I have returned to the existence of this divide and have situated works within the geographical and political landscape of this, in an attempt to question and foreground its assumptions, context and meaning, and how it is represented in everyday life and historically. The Belfast poet Ciaran Carson reflected the public and private anxieties and normalities of the Troubles in his collections Belfast Confetti and The Irish for No, where Carson traverses the labyrinth of Belfast neighbourhoods, lost between the solidity of brick and barbed wire, and the myth of “carved heraldic beasts gazing at you from the reredos”.
Hairline Crack [A Dialogue] is an ambitious, and developing, body of work with many iterations. It involves in-depth research and an exploration of materials inspired by museum collections’ artefacts, such as, the Royal Muster 1st Battalion Snare drum, flags, insignia at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks; Traditional Houses’ Architecture plans at the Museum of Country Life, Mayo; the museological display in its entirety of the National History Museum; and the related documents about the signing of the Anglo Irish Agreement, 1921. Starting at the museum and seeing it as a place of reflective viewership, these items indicate an all Ireland history, effectively placing the border within a temporal ellipsis between past and present. The artefacts influence a material response that refers to a very direct incorporation of elements of their craft and making, influencing these new contemporary artworks that explore themes of the border, the construction of histories and identities through the objects we preserve and produce.
Hairline Crack [a dialogue] is an important touring project that has the opportunity to represent Ireland abroad at Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie des Wilhelm-Hack-Museums (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris) in 2022 and 2023.
︎︎︎ Hairline Crack [a dialogue] catalogue
Centre Culturel Irlandais, France
3 February – 26 March 2023
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Germany
8 October 2022 – 8 January 2023
Hairline Crack [A Dialogue] emerges from the 100 year anniversary of the institutionalisation of a border on the island of Ireland, the establishment of the separation between North and South. In my art practice I have returned to the existence of this divide and have situated works within the geographical and political landscape of this, in an attempt to question and foreground its assumptions, context and meaning, and how it is represented in everyday life and historically. The Belfast poet Ciaran Carson reflected the public and private anxieties and normalities of the Troubles in his collections Belfast Confetti and The Irish for No, where Carson traverses the labyrinth of Belfast neighbourhoods, lost between the solidity of brick and barbed wire, and the myth of “carved heraldic beasts gazing at you from the reredos”.
Hairline Crack [A Dialogue] is an ambitious, and developing, body of work with many iterations. It involves in-depth research and an exploration of materials inspired by museum collections’ artefacts, such as, the Royal Muster 1st Battalion Snare drum, flags, insignia at the Museum of Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks; Traditional Houses’ Architecture plans at the Museum of Country Life, Mayo; the museological display in its entirety of the National History Museum; and the related documents about the signing of the Anglo Irish Agreement, 1921. Starting at the museum and seeing it as a place of reflective viewership, these items indicate an all Ireland history, effectively placing the border within a temporal ellipsis between past and present. The artefacts influence a material response that refers to a very direct incorporation of elements of their craft and making, influencing these new contemporary artworks that explore themes of the border, the construction of histories and identities through the objects we preserve and produce.
Hairline Crack [a dialogue] is an important touring project that has the opportunity to represent Ireland abroad at Rudolf-Scharpf-Galerie des Wilhelm-Hack-Museums (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), Centre Culturel Irlandais (Paris) in 2022 and 2023.
︎︎︎ Hairline Crack [a dialogue] catalogue