Pile (give or take)

Solstice Arts Centre, Railway St, Navan, Co Meath Tues-Sat 11am-4pm Until Apr 17 046-9092300

Artist Catherine Delaney has transformed the gallery space of Solstice into a temporary recycling centre. People are invited to bring in and donate unwanted clothing. They’re also free to look at what’s there and take something if they like it. With the residue, the clothing that no one wants, a wall is being constructed in one gallery space.

This might be described as an ambiguous monument, a memorial to . . . what? Consumerism or, in quite a different key, the lives and personal meanings once attached to the thousands of garments?

Unlike a conventional monument, as Delaney points out, this is not permanent and durable, but transitory. To a large degree, she is content to let the event take its own course. The work recalls French artist Christian Boltanski’s huge installations of discarded clothing and other personal materials. Troubled memorials to troubled histories.

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