An Exhibition by Mariechen Danz
Exhibition Launch: Thusday, 24 October 2024, 6-8pm
All welcome!
The first exhibition in Ireland by Irish/German artist
Mariechen Danz,
Stubborn Shadows/ Scáthanna Seasta is an installation consisting of sculpture, sound, and light that explores overlapping symbolic systems representing forms and methods of human knowledge transfer.
The exhibition uses a diverse visual language, drawn from anatomy, cartography, geology, astronomy, and technology to consider how we produce, preserve and transmit knowledge. Danz places the human body, often shown in fractured and displaced form, at the core of her inquiry. Materials include digital prints on punched and embossed aluminium as well as steel, resin, seeds, earth, fossils, and vitamins.
The works in Stubborn Shadows pull focus at the micro and macro level, zooming in and out and directing the gaze along various orientations, from the sky to the interior of the body. In a disarticulated operating theatre / theatre of operations, elements alternate from exposed to opaque, are scaled up and down; reflected, refracted, enshadowed and abstracted.Referents includetemplates from technologies that enable or support the transfer of data,historic cartographic details, constellations, and the messy ‘meatworld’ components of the human body both in literal form and in diagrammatic index.
The sonic work that forms part of the installation features repetitive or spherical sounds made in collaboration with Gediminas Žygus.
Curated by Sara Greavu with Cathy Coughlan
Lighting design with Marie Hegarty
Modular Mapping System&Modular Glyphic System in cooperation with GKF Co..
Gallery Open Times
Mo - Sa 11am - 6pm
Funded by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council.
Exhibition is supported by Goethe-Insitut Irland and Culture Moves Europe.
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