Remembrance, reflection and art on the border
Niamh McCann’s ‘someone decides, hawk or dove’ exhibition at The MAC is a thought provoking andfull of ideas about borders, lines drawn and new possibilities, says Jane Hardy.
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Niamh McCann’s ‘someone decides, hawk or dove’ exhibition at The MAC is a thought provoking andfull of ideas about borders, lines drawn and new possibilities, says Jane Hardy.
STEPPING out into the Belfast night for the late night art and watching everyone move from gallery to gallery in the city centre without a care always makes me feel like we have a really vibrant cultural life in the city.
Bright lines of yellow builders’ string, rolls of primary-colored packing tape, flat-head screws tagged with tiny strips of pastel-toned paper: Anne Tallentire’s sculptural materials can be both rudimentary—practical nonprecious items, often associated with different stages of an architectural process, from preliminary drawing to actual on-site construction—and, in their unorthodox configurations, tidily decorative. Her artworks involve careful measuring, precise mapping, methodical assembly; she reflects on the physical, social, and sensory conditions of built environments, scrutinizi...