'a consequence of – without stilling' will introduce a major new piece, presented in conversation within selected works from Maud Cotter's practice in this beautiful gallery set in a Mansion in a Park.
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Cotter is recognised for employing a mix of will and agency in the formation and context in her practice. A stillness in presence is followed by movement, bringing about an inevitable shift of meaning. Macro-physicality finds its point of incision; conscious and insightful, it enters the molecularly complex world of the object. These actions orchestrate new formations in that amorphous bank of matter behind appearance - consciousness modelling form.
The gallery becomes a mercurial landscape of the mind, a place where matter, and consciousness mix. In this world of material compliance and contradiction, no rule applies. In this world or upheaval, lies a consequence of - .
The exhibition at LCGA will be accompanied by a specially commissioned text by Sarah Kelleher, University College Cork.
The exhibition 'a consequence of - without stilling' at LCGA will be followed by two further solo exhibitions: at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon 'a consequence of - a breather of air' in 2019 and at the Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin in 2020 'a consequence of - entanglement' in 2020.
" … apparently arbitrarily grown up; governing different sets of properties at different levels of abstraction; pockets of great precision; large parcels of qualitative maxims resisting precise formulation; erratic overlaps; here and there, once in a while, corners that line up, but mostly ragged edges; and always the cover of law just loosely attached to the jumbled world of material things." 1
Note: 1 Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World, A Study of the Boundaries of Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, p.1
Cover image: Maud Cotter without stilling (work in progress) at the National Sculpture Factory, Cork.
Photograph by Roland Paschhoff, courtesy the artist and domobaal.
