Book Tickets
| Date: Thu 5 May 2022 |
| Time: 7:00pm |
| Price: Free |
Launch: 05|05|22 Refreshments Provided
Disturbances
An exhibition by Euan Gébler
Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich is pleased to present Euan Gébler’s first solo exhibition, ‘Disturbances’, in the Gerard Dillon Gallery. Euan was awarded this show as part of the Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich Student Graduate Award, 2021.
‘Disturbances’ is an exhibition of photography and sculpture exploring the relationship between culture and landscape. It deals with the uncertain boundary between the natural and man-made worlds.
“Using photography and sculpture I wanted to explore how transforming the world around us physically also transforms it symbolically. We change ourselves as our relationship to the earth we stand on changes. A key subject matter of the exhibition is industrial quarrying sites. These places show, on the grandest and most dramatic scale, the symbiotic relationship between people and the environment. The specifics of local landscape and geography affect the industry and culture of that place – and then, in turn, the landscape is reshaped and becomes a reflection of that culture and community.”
Euan visited a number of sites of human interaction with the landscape, including quarries across the North of Ireland, as well as factories, timber farms and landfills.
“The visual language of these unusual, sometimes alien, places reveals not only our relationship with our landscape, but with our past, and with our future. When we disturb landscapes, formed over immense time, we must ask: How are we shaping our relationship with time and our place within it? What do we do with the world we are handed down, and what sort of world do we pass on?”
Euan Gébler is an artist based in Belfast. He graduated from the Belfast School of Art with a BA in Fine Art in 2021. For his graduating work, he was longlisted for the 2021 RDS awards.
