Mae Pob Un o Rhain Yn Wir
Sun 29 October 2023 to Sun 28 January 2024
Gallery 1
Alice Briggs spent time in Cwm Elan as artist in residence during 2022. The Cambrian mountains today have been described harshly as a ‘white desert’, devoid of beauty, nature and life – but for the artist they are a place of sanctuary and ‘hiraeth’. In our increasingly polarised society, we struggle more and more with the idea of both/and, that one perspective can simultaneously be as true and valid as another. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so in this case the landscape is both wild/tamed, a desert/sanctuary, a point of extraction/immersion.
The multiple layers of the historical, ecological and geographical landscape also became a metaphor for Alice in her life, at a point of personal change, grief and transformation. How the same memory can be recalled with infinite subjectivities; that lives seemingly experienced together can lead to understanding, but also misunderstanding.
With thanks to g39 gallery, Cardiff and the Freelands Foundation.
Please note: The Arts Centre will close at end of day on the 22 December and will reopen on the 2 January. Nadolig Llawen!
