FOLLY / FACADE CIARA RODGERS

Official Launch at GOMA: Saturday 8th June, 4pm

Folly | Façade – Ciara Rodgers

8th June – 13th July 2024

GOMA presents Folly | Façade, an exhibition by visual artist Ciara Rodgers.

Official Opening on Saturday the 8th of June at 4pm.

Cities, understood and experienced as spaces that are made and remade according to principles directed by capitalism, leave behind debris and distortions, literally and metaphorically, which no longer fit the modus operandi.

Driven by a feeling of potential and liberation whilst walking alone in the city, Rodgers’ viewpoint of a female urban wanderer, or flaneûse contemplates the urban spectacle in all its contradictions, fluctuations and fragilities. Her reflective material responses are shaped by personal experiences and the self determination of Arte Povera and D.I.Y. Punk music movements.

This exhibition prompts the viewer to consider texture, colour, structure, openings and accidents in the city. Precarious, ephemeral pseudo-architectural structures and drawings exist in a state of flux; bundled, propped, and balanced, whilst Polaroids act as witness to moments of discovery. Folly | Façadelays the foundation for a deeper academic research project that will create new knowledge in the embodied experience of public spaces and structures, reimagining ordinary building blocks and rubble to construct alternative orders and meaning.

Curated by Aideen Quirke.