The 2020 Ceramics Ireland Triennale, Land/Marks had its first installation at Farmleigh Gallery in the Phoenix Park, Dublin in August. My piece ‘Mouth to Mouth’ was created for it. Covid impacted on the run of the show and it closed after only a few weeks.
As the pandemic loosened its grip, Land/Marks took to the road again. This time a capsule of the original exhibition was installed at the Argilá Festival in Faenza, Italy in September 2022. Ireland was the invited nation at this major international cultural event. Our capsule exhibition was housed in a magnificent frescoed hall, meaning that wall-hung work had to be re-thought. I developed a free-standing expression of the original ‘Mouth to Mouth’ and titled it ‘Mouth to Mouth to Mouth’! I made use of mirrors to create an infinity box in which similar pairs of cup forms were reflected back and forth to make a ceramic ‘DNA’ strip. The sound file remained the same.
The next installation of Land/Marks is in the National Design and Craft Gallery in Kilkenny from mid-February 2023.