Anticipated Fictions; Monumental Configurations (Part 1)

MDF, printed foamex, welded steel, vinyl, monumental uplighters, found stone, nuts, bolts, projections, aluminium composite, text. This exhibition is composed of two installations. The first is based on the conflicting planning applications by two non-governmental bodies for a monument in the same street in the Northern Irish town of Magherafelt - one for a war memorial, and one for a statue of Patrick Pearse. The planning permission portal becomes like a public archive, where these theoretical monuments are endorsed or condemned; the proposals in effect not needing to exist to stake their claim on public land. In this installation, somewhere between a museum and a public consultation, third entity is proposed to sit with one, both, or neither of these theoretical monuments.