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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