“The bodily disposition of Nolan’s two young subjects in these large-scale portraits, couple with the absence of formal codifcations of portraiture, emphasises an awareness of how place and identity are intertwined. However, it is the audio piece of the adolescent girl – who relays her knowledge… that provides the most powerful evocation of place.”
‘Perhaps the very name Pettigo offers hope, derived as it is from a Latin translation of the Irish place-name, An Tearmann, Sanctuary. Perhaps this holy place with its Pagan and Christian associations, sitting just west of Lough Derg, offers the chance of a gap in the geopolitical cloth that is laid over our lives like a shroud. Perhaps. And, as my second reflection, then, perhaps at the border the intensity of interaction belies the geopolitical logic. Perhaps out of contact comes friendship as a gap along the very line of division, a welcome lacuna. Perhaps.’
Geographical Poetics 4: Borderlands and Identities in Suspension: Thinking with Kate Nolan’s Lacuna
This gallery contains 8 photos.
‘Nolan links the external contours of the landscape with the inner, emotional worlds of the people who inhabit it. She manages to envisage the Border village and its setting as a kind of Tarkovskian Zone, that strange region of difference in his film Stalker. The Zone appears, to all intents and purposes, fairly ordinary, but is set apart from normality. People don’t go there.’ – Aidan Dunne
LACUNA screening on the front of the Gallery of Photography in Meeting House Square, Dublin for Culture Night.
LACUNA screening and presentation from the children of Pettigo of archive family photos in the Termon Centre for Culture Night Pettigo.
Such a great crowd for the artist’s talk and official launch of LACUNA at Gallery of Photography! Exhibition open till the 22nd October + more events coming up.
LACUNA is a cross-border touring exhibition organised by Gallery of Photography in partnership with Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny and Remote Photo Festival, supported by the Arts Council Ireland and the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Very excited to have LACUNA touring next year thanks to the Gallery of Photography. First stop is the Remote Festival at the stunning Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny in June 2018.
Signing off on final prints! 1 month countdown to opening night for LACUNA at the Gallery of Photography. Opening 9th September – 22nd October 2017.
One Image Story is an online curatorial project created by Maria Kapajeva.
It is a collection of two-minute stories told by the artists themselves about one image that has been chosen through discussion with them. The project is an ongoing archive of stories from all over the world. The selection of the artists is based on the ideas in their work with rather than their gender.
An image from my on going project The Cut Tells it’s Own Tale http://www.katenolan.ie/new-gallery-1/
Things are starting to come together.
WALL 2 & 3
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