[…] The exhibition presents a graphic story relating to this project with drawings, sketch books and maps. Studies that narrate the relationship between humans and wolves in Spain (indeed with other large animals also – bears & lynxes) ellide with landscapes of the mountain region of Kilkenny and other locations for the proposed memorial. The history of the natural world in Ireland is also embraced with depictions of extinct animals and familiar locations, short texts of recent encounters with wolves and a recent video of lupine experience, complete this astonishing multi faceted decade long reflection of triangular relationship between the earth, man and beast. The artist writes “I need to believe that the slow modus in a particular sort of art makes us able to be in the world in a different way”. […]
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