@misc{0568d533cd6b4b2594c7ab29c84127a8,
title = "Materialising in the Almost-Shadow",
abstract = "The exhibition, {\textquoteleft}Penumbra{\textquoteright}, can be situated alongside exhibitions of works by contemporary female artists from across the island of Ireland. These exhibitions have sought to address the invisibility of such work. {\textquoteleft}Penumbra{\textquoteright} presents us with a range of material practices that are reimagining and transgressing the terrain of what defines Ireland and Irish cultural identity. This hinges upon a resurgence in concerns for the materiality of paint itself as the very site of meaning. {\textquoteleft}Penumbra{\textquoteright} comes from the Latin paene {\textquoteleft}almost{\textquoteright} and umbra {\textquoteleft}shadow{\textquoteright} meaning a shaded spot, or the outer part of a conical darkness cast behind a celestial object by a light source. In this text, I will reflect on how the works in this exhibition bring into the frame that which was always hauntingly present, located in the half-light across the {\textquoteleft}Penumbra{\textquoteright}. ",
keywords = "painting, art, art theory",
author = "Cherie Driver",
year = "2020",
month = jul,
language = "English",
volume = "4",
publisher = "Visual Artists Ireland",
address = "Ireland",
edition = "July - August 2020",
type = "Other",
}