Sunday, 20 May 2012

MAUD COTTER TALK AT LSAD




Maud Cotter
B. Wexford, Ireland 1954

Talk at LSAD 26 April 2012

Maud spoke about & showed a slide of photographs of her work. She spoke about building structures (solid and translucent) in relation to the body, moments of time within an object and an identity of an object. She is interested in engineering structures, immobilising materials and materials in space. She said ‘’space exists only when it is opened up’’. I found that her pieces become questions, she made me think about air that gathers under a table, in a cup or in a pocket and how I behave around an object or space. In her many works there are shadows, lines, mirrors to other worlds, extended legs on tables, tables with holes, city like built structures all using conscious and subconscious elements that I find extremely interesting. 

I like how her work goes ‘’beyond its material self and into space’’.  She does alot of experimentations, she is fixated on the smaller moments of the built world and she likes the feel of immobilisation of the materials she uses in her processes. I had heard her name over the past months but never knew anything about her work. I am delighted that I got to be at her talk, her notions of space and objects have me seeing things with brand new eyes.









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