Where you are lost, We are Sídhe

Engage Gallery

Galway

May/June 2018

Curated by Moran Been-noon

For this exhibition to present work and make a solo performance for the launch. This was not only the exhibition launch, but also the opening for the Engage Studio and Gallery space in Galway.

Moran had selected my porcelain soles and Cinderella performance for this event.

Participating artists: Monique Bloom, Zara Lyness, Ilaria Pellizzaro, Anushiya Sunderlingam and Ruby Wallis.

After the opening the studios held a workshop where participants made their own footprints

Photography by Ruby Wallace and Grace Mitchell

A promotional poster for an art exhibition titled "Where You Are Lost, We Are Side" curated by Moran Beeri, featuring a beige fabric backdrop with large white text overlay. The poster provides event details, including the date, time, location at Knoedler Art Studios, and contact information, with side text listing participating artists.
Sculpture of ceramic footprints suspended across a room
Rows of white plaster casts resembling shoes or boots on a dark floor against a plain white wall.
A white gallery wall with white footprints hanging from thin wires and a black and white framed photograph on the floor.
A room with white walls and white rood like artwork hanging from the ceiling
Close-up of a white footprint made of ceramic hanging from thin strings against a white wall and black floor.
Collection of white ceramic boots and shoes displayed on a dark gray surface
A woman dressed in a yellow gown, sitting on a white lace cloth, windows, and decorative items, with several white shoes and a water container on the floor.
A woman sitting on a white sheet with her feet on the floor, reading a magazine, and two young girls sitting beside her with one of the girls hugging the other. There are various objects on the sheet, including paper cups, a glass jar, and a wrapped
A woman bending over a table with her head down, surrounded by children observing her, in a room with plain white walls. There are various objects on the table, including a clear pitcher, a plate, and a colorful cloth.
A woman walking on a sidewalk through a grassy area toward a row of light-colored suburban houses with cars parked in front.
Woman with dark hair in ponytail wearing white outfit walking away in a parking lot, with trees and houses in the background.
A woman walking on a sidewalk in a residential neighborhood with trees and houses in the background.
A person with light skin wearing a white shirt with black polka dots holding a black and white object, with newspapers and a white mug on the table.
Children wearing aprons working on a craft project at a table covered with crumpled newspapers, yarn, and wooden craft sticks.
White ceramic or plaster molds of shoe shapes are placed on a gray floor, some with hollow interiors and openings at the top, used for casting or sculpting shoes.
Uncooked pieces of white drywall or plasterboard on a gray surface.

Where you are lost, we are Sídhe

Engage Gallery, Galway 2019

Curator Moran Been Noon

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Where you are lost, we are Sídhe is explored ideas situated between land art practice, traditionally-feminine creative crafts, and contemporary art practice. Each of the artwork presented is rooted to an action that began outdoors. The artists look at natural landscapes and social structures and explore their place within them as women, as artists, as occupants of space. Their actions are different from those of men artists who work with landscape: They do not conquer, they do not reshape, displace, or replace. They place a body or a texture, they harvest to create.

creatively acting outdoors, indoors, and filling the space with their work, these artists are constituting a reality in which land art means placing and creating rather than displacing and reshaping. The idea of “constituting a reality” references Judith Butler’s ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’ where Butler states that acting within public reality, unlike theatrical acting, potentially constitutes a changed reality. The work is rooted outdoors; it comments on the social structures that await us when we walk outside; it represents a creative relationship with land.

Link to video https://vimeo.com/416538361?fl=pl&fe=sh