AMANDA RICE: MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL WORLDS
The new exhibition in the series curated by Miguel Amado for the Triskel Arts Centre opens this Thursday, 10 June 2021.
The show runs from Thursday 10 JUN - Sunday 12 SEP 2021.
The practice of the London-based artist Amanda Rice (born in 1985 in Ireland) addresses a variety of issues related to humanity’s significant, long-standing impact on Earth’s ecosystems. In early works, Rice looked at historic and contemporary quests to conquer landmass conducted by nation-states and corporations. More recently she explores questions of geological nature with respect to two interrelated mechanics of capitalism: extraction and overproduction. Themes of matter, industry, energy and colonialism are common threads.
Rice operates across moving image and sculpture. Recently she has been making films in the form of essays and installations informed by research, sometimes led in dialogue with others, from academics to museum professionals. They consist of footage shot on location as well as information and archival material usually found online, all combined through storytelling devices. They mix fact, opinions, personal impressions and collective memory in narratives that oscillate between history lessons, advertising, propaganda and awareness-raising sessions.