Crithir 2024

The title Crithir refers to the Irish phrase with a multitude of meanings which are explored in Manchán Magan’s thirty-two words for Field: “Any solid dependable mass that starts to quiver or faulter which makes it an ideal term for the understanding of electrons these particles we have delineated as the building blocks of life but are wholly undependable.” In this work, I wish to explore how manmade objects could act when unobserved.

The installation consists of both natural and man-made materials and exists both indoors and outdoors. In using salvaged materials with past lives, the work encourages a reimagining of their purpose. In using transitionary objects which hold, bind, and support human social ecologies. Bike racks and climbing frames are granted agency they mesh and mingle with organic objects. In the work, I am using signifiers of the urban landscape such as the print of the florescent lamp which signifies for children a time to go inside but also a signifier of the short lifecycle of our industrial objects.