Between Worlds at Galway Arts Centre

Between Worlds, a new and lovely exhibition by Jennifer Cunningham is running at the city’s Galway Arts Centre until this Sunday, October, 20.

The playful exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculptures is complemented by a display of dioramas by children from Gaelscoil Iarfhlatha in Tuam. And that’s an ideal mix because Between Worlds is part of this year’s Baboró International Arts festival for Children, which runs until Sunday.

Jennifer’s works are an amalgamation of different utopian sources and her own childhood memories.

She explores a child’s imagination as a place of freedom and play, of resilience and strength; a safe space from which to explore and make sense of the world. In Jennifer’s imagined world, abandoned fairgrounds and derelict spaces evoke the faded magic of childhood possibility.

She is particularly interested in misplaced architecture and deserted places, confronting the viewer with the contrasting aesthetic of old and new. Her landscapes, sometimes bare, desolate and even forbidding, aren’t so much about representing real views as about reflecting her emotional response to the experience of an encounter.

In this show, she has been inspired by places from Galway’s Rahoon flats to Berlin’s Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain), which was a spy listening station on the border between East and West Berlin.  Another reference is Drop City, a counterculture artists’ community based in southern Colorado in the 1960s. This ‘hippie commune’ was renowned for its dome dwellings, which were built using waste and salvage materials including car roofs.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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