Opening Friday 2 August 6-8pm
Open Fri-Sat 11am-5pm 3 - 18 August
Artist's talk: Saturday 3 August 3pm
Ciaran Begley Writhe 2019 (diagram) |
This show involves a series of structures that
confront the public with contortions of space itself. Four hanging
sculptures arranged throughout articulate’s long central gallery hang from the
exposed wooden struts of the building. These heavy works Installed
along the middle of the space set up the architectural space as a stage for
spatial contortion. These room dividers delineate new internal
spaces and when moving expanding in a rectangular form containing a complex
contorting form enveloping the gallery space with danger and intrigue.
The work is a complex reinterpretation of previous
work engaging those who know my work with an impossible reconfiguration of
known forms with new movements and a departure from the safety of the wall. For
new viewers this work is a step into the zone. A
landscape of new possibilities and new dangers where the laws of physics and
assumptions about gravity give way to a world where space is governed by
action, movement and form. A space where the choices we make become
environments for others and comprehension an elusive concept.
In this work I have challenged the limits of my own capacities of engineering and installation to present a work that challenges my own capacities of expectation and experience. Please join me in this new world.
Ciaran Begley