Two Or More Distant Realities By Louise Manifold

Manifold draws inspiration for her work from over-looked and often unbelievable subject matter such as rare delusional illnesses, obscure phenomena and manifestations of medieval melancholy, as a means in which to comment upon human consciousness in contemporary culture. The exhibition also reflects the artist’s fascination with the German ‘Wunderkammer’, or ‘cabinet room of curiosities’, private museums which date back to the C16th in which both the natural and the man-made were classified not by science but by the owner’s personal imagination and taste. In using this classification system as a vehicle, the artist presents her ideas upon hybridism and transformation, between both man and animal, and man and machine. Manifold’s cabinet of curiosities reads like a fairy tale, in which inanimate objects take on animal forms and preserved creatures are embellished like precious objects.

Saturday 1st October to Friday 21st October.  

Garterlane Gallery,
O'Connell Street

Waterford

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