THE SADDEST MALL IN TOWN
INSTALLATION, VARIABLE DIMENSIONS, INCLUDING THREE VIDEO WORKS AND A SOUNDSCAPE.
ENDLESSNESSNESSNESS; CECILIA BULLO, ELLA BERTILSSON, HANNAH NÍ MHAONAIGH, CURATED BY JULIA MOUSTACCHI, THE LAB GALLERY 2024.
PRESS RELEASE
WRITTEN BY JULIA MUSTACHI.
ENDLESSNESSNESSNESS PRESENTS FICTIONAL WORLDS AND LANDSCAPES DRAWN FROM MYTHOLOGICAL AND URBAN STORIES. THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTWORKS PRESENTED EXPLORE ENDURING TALES AND LEGENDS, THUS INTERROGATING THE CONCEPTS OF ETERNALITY AND EPHEMERALITY. THE TITLE HINTS AT THIS LINE OF INQUIRY, BORROWING ITS NEOLOGISM FROM JOYCE IN HIS OWN REVISITED MYTHICAL NARRATIVE, ULYSSES.
HERE, THE THREE ARTISTS EVOKE ‘LEGENDARY TALES WHICH ORCHESTRATE BEINGS SYMBOLISING ENERGIES, POWERS, ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION.’ [1] FEMININE ENERGIES IN PARTICULAR ARE BEING EXAMINED – THEIR LATENT POWER, AT TIMES SERENE, AT TIMES FIERY, SYMBOLISED BY NATURAL ELEMENTS OR EMBODIED AND ACTIVATED BY PERFORMATIVE MOMENTS.
PROTAGONISTS, IN THEIR DIFFERENT FORMS, ARE STUCK; THEIR STRUGGLE IS AT THE CENTRE OF THE CYCLICAL AND RITUALISTIC REPRESENTATIONS THAT SPAN THROUGH THE EXHIBITION. THEY AIM TO FIND A PLACE OF HEALING, OF METAMORPHOSIS. ALONGSIDE THE SACRED AND THE HOLY, GROTESQUE, HUMOROUS AND PLAYFUL TONES EMERGE, INVITING THE AUDIENCE TO QUESTION THE PERCEPTION OF THESE COLLECTIVE MEMORIES.
[1] IN LE ROBERT, DICTIONARY ABOUT ‘MYTH’ (FRENCH, TRANSLATED)
THE ARTIST ACKNOWLEDGES THE KIND SUPPORT OF MUSEUM OF EVERYONE AND IMMA'S RESIDENCY PROGRAMME THROUGH THE PRODUCTION OF THIS WORK, AS WELL AS, THE ARTS COUNCIL OF IRELAND AND SOUTH COUNTY COUNCIL’S CONTINUED SUPPORT.
EXHIBITION DOCUMENTAION: LOUIS HAUGH