Vox Materia
The Source Arts Centre,
Cathedral Street,
Thurles,
County Tipperary.
Curated by Pluck Projects.
Exhibition opening at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday 29th March.
Vox Materia comprises a multi-part installation of sculpture and works on paper. Stemming from Maher’s consideration of a 12th Century mermaid carving at nearby Kilcooley Abbey, this show meditates on voice and silence. The mermaid is a hybrid creature that transgresses boundaries between human and animal, and is often associated with traumatic loss of voice. Maher deploys the mermaid not as a motif, but as an ambiguous and powerful conceptual tool to explore ideas of language, embodiment, agency, and autonomy.
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29 March 2018
