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Pauline Rowan: Under a Vaulted Sky
Pauline Rowan worked closely with a small community of people and their relationship to a deconsecrated convent and its鈥� abandoned gardens, all of which were marked for demolition, over a period of 18 months. Her collaborators consisted of the convents鈥� transient residents and its鈥� previously evicted nuns. The project looks at our relationship to home, primarily the garden and our cultural repetition of the need to control land. It also considers the struggle and acceptance of those people involved, all knowing that their home and sanctuary would be soon destroyed. As a consequence a long-standing, ancient link of the site with nature, worship and propagation was severed.
An extensive body of work, Under a Vaulted Sky, consists of portraits, still lives, and field documentary and is delicately intertwined with Rowans performative responses. This project has been created in an important time in Irish history, when it is separating itself from the catholic religion and finding its relationship to spirituality again. Rowan believes that while this system falls apart, the remnants of our pagan past can be seen emerging through the rubble.
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Pauline Rowan worked closely with a small community of people and their relationship to a deconsecrated convent and its鈥� abandoned gardens, all of which were marked for demolition, over a period of 18 months. Her collaborators consisted of the convents鈥� transient residents and its鈥� previously evicted nuns. The project looks at our relationship to home, primarily the garden and our cultural repetition of the need to control land. It also considers the struggle and acceptance of those people involved, all knowing that their home and sanctuary would be soon destroyed. As a consequence a long-standing, ancient link of the site with nature, worship and propagation was severed.
An extensive body of work, Under a Vaulted Sky, consists of portraits, still lives, and field documentary and is delicately intertwined with Rowans performative responses. This project has been created in an important time in Irish history, when it is separating itself from the catholic religion and finding its relationship to spirituality again. Rowan believes that while this system falls apart, the remnants of our pagan past can be seen emerging through the rubble.
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