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URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/exhibition-niamh-omalley-at-the-brigit
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SUMMARY:Exhibition | Niamh O'Malley at the Brigitte Mulholland Gallery\, Pa
 ris
DESCRIPTION:\nExhibition continues from the 4th of September to the 11th of
  October 2025\n\n\n\nBrigitte Mulholland is thrilled to present Niamh O’
 Malley’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. O’Malley\, (b. 1975\,
  Mayo\, Ireland) currently lives and works in Dublin and has had numerous 
 solo exhibitions internationally\, including the Irish Pavilion at the 59t
 h Venice Art Biennale in 2022. Her sculptures make tangible the act of try
 ing: trying to grasp a certain slant of light\, to contemplate the enormit
 y of a landscape\, to hold moments still. This exhibition features sculptu
 res made of steel\, wood\, and glass\, as well as a film. In the gallery
 ’s Salon\, the artist presents a separate series of works made of graphi
 te and watercolour on panel\, which serve as a complement to (and sometime
 s studies for) her sculptures and their forms.\n\n\n\nO’Malley’s glass
  sculptures are composed of shards of glass that are cut\, wrapped in copp
 er foil\, and soldered together into configurations that protrude gently f
 rom the wall\, both casting and holding light. Glass\, with its implicit t
 ranslucence and fragility\, also embodies a state of solidity: a material 
 with its own depth and colour\, it can be looked at\, as well as looked th
 rough. While there is a lack of surface absorption in the glass\, the pane
 ls stand in contrast: dark\, opaque surfaces that retain marks and memory.
  Each of them is embedded with the artist’s hand: scribbling\, sanding\,
  and moulding the edges with her fingers.\n\n\n\nA number of Shelf works a
 re included\, which gather many of the sculptural materials O’Malley emp
 loys: wood\, glass\, and metal. The shelf becomes the ground and support o
 f her compositions\, facilitating the careful - yet simultaneously barely 
 tethered - arrangement of components\, eliciting both a strength and a del
 icate tension. Other sculptures in the exhibition include Leafs\, where lo
 ng\, slender steel rods protrude from hammered steel shapes\, part foliage
 \, part strange\, elegant weights. In Eye\, two thin sheets of raw steel a
 re folded into overhangs – each with cutouts that resemble soft fingers 
 or lashes\, and each sheltering a sun of amber glass. The stark solidity o
 f the grey steel contrasts\, yet complements\, the fragile glow of the gla
 ss. The film offers viewers another kind of touch – its material enquiry
  bringing us back into a kinetic reality where the hand and the eye scan a
 nd search and seek form and solidity.\n\n\n\nWhile her practice may seem v
 isually diverse\, O’Malley uses a small repertoire of materials whose na
 ture and limitations have\, over time\, become a formative part of her art
 istic process. She is interested in what attracts our attention and why\; 
 in how we move our bodies towards particular views or situations\; in how 
 we look at\, frame\, and touch the chaos of the world. As Lizzie Lloyd not
 ed in her text for the Venice Biennale: “O’Malley’s objects are repl
 ete with edges that outline\, overlap\, and neighbour other edges. Their m
 eeting points accentuate buffed\, pitted\, powdered and polished surfaces 
 over which our eye catches and slips…Hers is a material inquiry but with
  social and political implications built on necessary contingencies in whi
 ch one part depends on another.”\n\n\n\nWith many thanks to Culture Irel
 and for its support of this exhibition.\n
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,International
LOCATION:Brigitte Mulholland\, 81 rue de Turenne  \, Paris\, 75003\, Irelan
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