TY - ADVS
T1 - The Absolutely Other
T2 - Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland, 2014
A2 - Modeen, Mary
N1 - Some of these works will travel to Dublin and the USA in further venues.* Modeen gave a public gallery talk at Edinburgh Print Workshop, 18 Jan. ’14, video recorded for Edinburgh Printmakers:
www.artinscotland.tv/2014/mary-modeen-the-absolutely-other/
References:
1 Berger, J., Michaels, A., Stehlíková, T., 2012. Railtracks, London: Go Together Press. P. 68
2 O'Donohue, J., 2004. Beauty: The Invisible Embrace. New York: HarperCollins. P 49.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The Absolutely Other is a title taken from a quote from Jacques Rancière. Certain places can be familiar to us, even when we know we have never seen them before. Such fleeting glimmers of recognition can penetrate the heart deeply, evoking what John Berger once described as ‘The gasp of Home.’ It is in these moments that the intention of the soul is revealed. Like a forest clearing, we suddenly know where we are and why we are here. The point of confluence between now, and a more ancient then, opens the unfolding path that lies before us. Modeen’s collection of 22 prints and bookworks explores these unpredictable clearings, these breaks in the homogeneity of space. They are anomalous places she has stumbled upon, liminal places she has deliberately sought to find; no place, every place, constructed from inner visions; each of them imbued with a kind of sacred significance. They contain layers of concealed memory and beauty, which, when seen as a suspended whole, awaken us to the source of all love, or what the writer and philosopher John O Donoghue once called the ‘primal affection.’
AB - The Absolutely Other is a title taken from a quote from Jacques Rancière. Certain places can be familiar to us, even when we know we have never seen them before. Such fleeting glimmers of recognition can penetrate the heart deeply, evoking what John Berger once described as ‘The gasp of Home.’ It is in these moments that the intention of the soul is revealed. Like a forest clearing, we suddenly know where we are and why we are here. The point of confluence between now, and a more ancient then, opens the unfolding path that lies before us. Modeen’s collection of 22 prints and bookworks explores these unpredictable clearings, these breaks in the homogeneity of space. They are anomalous places she has stumbled upon, liminal places she has deliberately sought to find; no place, every place, constructed from inner visions; each of them imbued with a kind of sacred significance. They contain layers of concealed memory and beauty, which, when seen as a suspended whole, awaken us to the source of all love, or what the writer and philosopher John O Donoghue once called the ‘primal affection.’
KW - point of confluence
KW - anomalous
KW - liminal
UR - http://www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk/exhibitions/mary-modeen-the-absolutely-other
UR - https://dura-dundee.org.uk/2014/03/17/absolutely-other/
M3 - Exhibition
PB - Edinburgh Printmakers
CY - Edinburgh
ER -