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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin;VALUE=DATE:20250911
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SUMMARY:The Sibyls | Alice Maher at the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
DESCRIPTION:\nIn 'The Sibyls'\, Alice Maher presents a series of monumental
  drawings of female figures entangled in\, or twisting free from\, vast sn
 aking mounds of hair. At the base of these drawings the artist has placed 
 small piles of highly polished\, irregular objects—amorphous forms that 
 resemble great globs of mercury.\n\n\n\nThe title of the series\, The Siby
 ls\, references the oracular women of archaic times\, seers who lived apar
 t from society and were believed to channel the prophesies of the divine. 
 In Renaissance art these figures were transformed into biblical prophetess
 es\, pictured holding scrolls or books\, as in Michelangelo’s majestic t
 urban-clad sibyls in the Sistine chapel. Maher’s Sibyls are different - 
 rather than resting serenely in the architecture of institutional belief o
 r patriarchal systems of meaning\, these Sibyls are altogether more dynami
 c and equivocal. Their scrolls have morphed into chaotic skeins of hair\; 
 their turbans twisted into massive living organisms that envelop\, extend 
 from\, and consume their heads\, while their powerful bodies struggle and 
 strain to impart their portentous message…\n\n\n\n…Culturally coded as
  either dangerous or shameful depending on its context\, hair becomes here
  a visual agent of instability. Are the Sibyls coming into being through t
 his dense matrix of bodily material\, or are they caught in the web of the
 ir own weaving? Are they rising or falling\, emerging or succumbing? The s
 igns are deliberately destabilising\; their meanings are as slippery and s
 hifting as the mysterious sculptural shapes tumbled below.'\n\n\n\nExtract
  from an Accompanying Text written by Dr Sarah Kelleher.\n
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