Bernadette Cotter, Su-Chen Hung, Hun-Chung Lee, Robert Rasmussen • Opening reception 7pm Friday 5 August; to be opened by Peter Murray, Director, Crawford Art Gallery

“It is perhaps not surprising that these artists have exhibited together before and have over the years become close friends; there is a philosophical and aesthetic thread, a mode of practice and of living that forms part of an essential quiet revolution.

Ireland, Korea, Norway and Taiwan may seem like an unlikely art quartet, but of course that is what the best curators do – put together and see the links that join up the dots of shared experience for our benefit. This is a first class international exhibition for Macroom.

Drawing together artists from East and West working in the area of installation, Time in Space reflects two important features of global art, the dramatic rise of both installation and Asian contemporary art…Semantic matters, be they philosophical, political or spiritual are perhaps as central to the work of these four artists as any visual considerations. Assembling objects and memories, sometimes in a sort of open diary they deal with the memory of experience, individual and collective in a

space that affects us deeply. Dermot Healy’s observations in a A Fool’s Errand of the migrations of the barnacle geese between their breeding grounds in Greenland and their winter home in Sligo come to mind as I take in the special space the four artists have created here: “The needle travels through the evening sky as they come in beautiful stitches along a thread, and another thread. The fire is lit. Memory is at the gate and waves time through.”

In Buddhist teaching there is no I, it is only our ignorance that makes us see ourselves as separate from others. To experience this exhibition, take its short journey and make it part of our own and get lost in its special world should go some way toward a diminishing of the individual and lead us, albeit temporarily, closer to the harmony we all strive to achieve. It is up to each of us to seek knowledge, not just from books but from everyday life and the common things around us. Though this enlightenment may never be achieved, our lifetime task is this journey.

– John Daly, Director, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin

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