The Marvellous As We Know it
Emily Jones + David Hurley
Date 29th September – 08 October
Time 11am - 6pm
Location Festival Printworks Gallery
This event is FREE and open to the public. There is no booking required.
Summary
Wells, cairns, megaliths; sites which were once anchoring points in Lough Corrib’s landscape, shrouded in layers of myths and stories. Through mapping these mythological landmarks and local stories layered upon them, and capturing a journey through those sites, a new narrative is traced exploring the material and semiotic conditions of these landmarks, and what they might represent in a world that has moved on from their original meaning.
Event Organiser @realrealrealetc
About
“What did the Bronze Age farmer make of the numerous structures, like chambers or tables made of massive slabs of rock, that stood in his fields or by his paths, just as one finds them in people’s gardens or behind roadside walls [today]?” Tim Robinson Acknowledging that architecture is an accretion of inherited ideas and meanings, ‘The Marvellous as We Know it’, an exhibition by Réal, explores how myths, and the objects they are attached to, become conduits that deeply connect people to their landscape. Founded on research gathered on sites of folklore around Lough Corrib for AATE 2022, the exhibition seeks to make visible layers of mythology latent in this landscape. In the past, landscapes were revered and feared; rocks added to piles, scraps tied to fairy trees, generating attitudes of exchange rather than exploitation. Over time stories change, meanings are twisted and appropriated, constructions lost and destroyed; each object perpetually renewed through its interpretation by people. Through mapping, long existing stories are reconnected to their sites. Expanding on last year’s research through a photographic journey, new narratives for these edifices are imagined in the present. Exploring architecture and its narrative potential as a means to reconcile our identity with land, the exhibition suggests a contemporary view on the material and semiotic conditions of these landmarks, and what they might represent in a world that has moved on from their original meaning.