METANOIA I - '“And as all that holds together ‘under my hand’, the surgery resembles a manual demiurge at once aggressive and repairing, murderous and loving. The Thing is reconstituted, the cicatrisation comes to it from the very gesture that wounds it.” A. Artaud 1932
mild steel, porcelain, surgical thread & needles, surgical pliers, found objects, hardware, video
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImSkUzGEuQ with thanks to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
H 192 X L 160 X W 46 cm
Cast, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IRL, curated by Katriona Gillespie, 2018, NEU/NOW Visual Art Festival, European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), Galerie l’Atelier, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, FR, 2010, curated by Anthony Dean and Paula Crabtree, Claremorris Open ’09, Claremorris, Co. Mayo, 2009, curated by Tom Morton