Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Explore ideas, techniques and materials used in Maud Cotter’s practice in this special artist-led workshop
breathturn
Get closer to Maud Cotter’s practice in this special evening workshop
Wednesday 15th October 7.30pm-9.00pm
On the occasion of her solo exhibition maelstrom join the exhibiting artist within the exhibition for a session that brings you closer to her ideas and practice.
In the poetry of the Romanian poet, Paul Celan, the engagement of the other with the self sits in a pivotal place. He speaks of the space between words as breathturn, an exhalation of breath followed by an inhalation, the embodiment of an exterior entity into one’s being. This examination of a space between one thing and another, is elemental to how Maud Cotter progresses her work.
Identifying this pocket of air, this breath, acts as a place from which one can follow one’s aspirant thoughts into the disordered and broken space of the present; a point from which one can look at the coexistence of things, and the space of being which binds them together.
As a form of personal research, she will revisit the works of maelstrom with emphasis on the genesis and activation of that charged space, so necessary when one seeks to counter the ‘confinement of being’.*1
*1 Quote: Alberto Pérex-Gómez from an essay titled: The Space of Architecture: Meaning as Presence and Represenation, from a book titled: Questions of Perception, Phenomenology of Architecture, Architecture and Urbanism, 1994, ISBN 4-900211-48-6
You will be moving throughout the space over the two floors of the gallery.
Bring a sketch book, or notebook for personal notes or drawings.
Can you bring two small bits of material or objects no bigger than a hand. Maud wants you to consider how one thing might sit with another. You will mix and explore this collection of bits.
The artist also asks as a special favour, that you bring some discarded paper for her personal use, on which she will draw on in the future.
Booking required, numbers are limited and places are €20 per person.
All materials supplied and Prosecco, tea & coffee are served.
