A drop in becoming

4 June - 2 July

Annie Hogg & Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe

A drop in becoming is a living exhibition, transforming over the course of a month in response to the temporal world we inhabit. Featuring the works of Annie Hogg and Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe, sculptures dissolve, absorb, and digest in an ever-changing encounter. The artists employ sustainable techniques and hand-harvested materials in intimate communication with their natural surroundings that question our changing relationship to the earth. Audiences are invited to become participants in the gallery space as the works engage all five of their senses.

Annie Hogg’s work explores the microscopic world of Archaea, single-celled organisms that are the closest living relatives to the Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA). Actions and reactions are fabricated in natural materials to mirror those performed by Archaea in their crucial role over planetary boundaries and health. Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe utilises sculpture and fiction to explore how we become from place through our mineral exchange with home, land, and the matter we share it with. Visitors are invited to absorb place through consumption, touch, and conversation with material.

The exhibition is accompanied by an events programme that engages the audience in active listening, slow looking, creative writing, and speculative thinking. Events are all free to attend, full programme available soon.

Thank you to Arts Council Northern Ireland and Tipperary Arts Office for funding this project. The exhibition and events programme were curated by Catalyst Arts Co-Director Samar Nezamabad.