Black Gives Way to Blue | Ava Hayes at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion

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Black Gives Way to Blue is an exhibition of new work by Cork-based painter Ava Hayes. Working on large scale canvas, Hayes produces abstract, performative paintings which arise from an exploration of intense bodily feeling; the physical tension that arises when language and verbal expression fails. Her painting strategies play with the intimacy of memory and soundscapes to create a bodily charge that transfers onto the canvas. As this builds, she utilises this anxious energy, creating fervent marks that leave traces of this happening in their wake. Hayes is interested in the moment when internalised experience breaks to the surface.