Fading not ending

Roscommon Arts Centre, Roscommon Mon-Fri 10am-5.30pm, Sat 2-5.30pm Until Aug 5 090-6625824

Although she's taken part in many group shows and projects, Fading Not Endingis Maggie Madden's first solo show. Given the nature of her work, one can see why. She tends to make intricate, labour-intensive installations employing vast amounts of "discarded and humble materials" such as packaging. While the pieces she's fashioned can be epic in scale, they "often have a fragility that teeters on the brink of collapse".

Through such simple, repetitive processes of cutting, colouring and gluing, she transforms the familiar and the ordinary into something monumental and strange. They are constructions that look as if they might expand indefinitely. They invite us to reflect on mass consumerism but also, depending on materials, on the relationship between urban and rural and on the nature of “our networked world, communication and transport systems”.

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