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Oona Hyland - Wit(h)nessing
Estimate:
€150 - €200
Sold
€90
Timed Auction
Arthouse 2023 - Day 2
ARTIST
Oona Hyland
Size
32x28 cms
Category
Description
About artist: Oona Hyland is a visual artist and a recent graduate with an MA in art research and collaboration from IADT in Dublin (2022) and an MPhil in Irish Art History TCD (2017). She is currently working out of Dublin. She has during the last few years been on numerous residencies, among them Fundacion Joan Miro, Agalab Amsterdam, BKN Sweden, and Edition Basel . She was shortlisted for The On Paper Print Award in Barcelona (2021). She received The Emerging Artist Award from DLR, Dublin (2022).
She represented Ireland at the Onsaemiro Project, a research and exhibition in the Joint Security Area between North and South Korea in 2019 and the Sao Paulo Biennale event 'Beyond the Horizon' in 2018. Hyland participated in 'Patrons Prizes Paradigms', The Ernie O Malley Art Awards Ireland. Hyland studied Cinematography at BCFE Dublin.
Hyland was elected to The Royal Society of Painter/Printmaker in London (2021). She is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and 9 Dragonheads.
About artwork: I called this print Wit(h)nessing. The form of the print: I made a hexagon shaped plate in copper which I punctured by hammering holes into it. The hexagon is a symbol, it's the shape which covers and creates open area the best whilst minimising boundary. This minimizes the amount of material needed to build these boundaries, hence the use of hexagons by honeybees. But I used it also to evoke the feeling of a repeating pattern and I was thinking about the workers/worker bees. I hammered another plate which is printed "blind" embossed. The subject of the print is Home which can be interpreted in several ways. The image of the two girls within the hexagon holding hands is a sign of solidarity, friendship and love, I wanted that to be the dominant image. Behind the girls there's a barely visible archival image of a young girl from a Magdalene laundry circa 1940's. My mother gave birth to my eldest brother Joe in one of these homes. In this print I sought to link the present to the past in a kind of epigenetic memory, a traumatic memory we carry with us even if we are barely aware of it. Homes can also have other connotations besides the cosy home idea. In Ireland there were other homes, the ones we don't talk about. I called this print Wit(h)nessing because I want to share the transmission of affect, where there's a sense of affective sharing, of ‘wit(h)nessing’ and ‘transmissibility’ of (traumatic) affect. Wit(h)nessing is a word-concept seeded in ideas of co-poiesis* by feminist theorist of affect, visual artist, and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger. While Ettinger is concerned with enlarging a notion of with-ness in thinking about human interdependence, resonant also is allusion to—and some unsettling of—the idea and practice of witnessing. I think of wit(h)nessing in terms of the double meaning of observation—to be an eyewitness, to see, to watch— to bear testimony and to share empathy.
Website: https://oonahyland.com
Instagram: @oonahyland
Edition: Yes; 12 of 30
About artwork: I called this print Wit(h)nessing. The form of the print: I made a hexagon shaped plate in copper which I punctured by hammering holes into it. The hexagon is a symbol, it's the shape which covers and creates open area the best whilst minimising boundary. This minimizes the amount of material needed to build these boundaries, hence the use of hexagons by honeybees. But I used it also to evoke the feeling of a repeating pattern and I was thinking about the workers/worker bees. I hammered another plate which is printed "blind" embossed. The subject of the print is Home which can be interpreted in several ways. The image of the two girls within the hexagon holding hands is a sign of solidarity, friendship and love, I wanted that to be the dominant image. Behind the girls there's a barely visible archival image of a young girl from a Magdalene laundry circa 1940's. My mother gave birth to my eldest brother Joe in one of these homes. In this print I sought to link the present to the past in a kind of epigenetic memory, a traumatic memory we carry with us even if we are barely aware of it. Homes can also have other connotations besides the cosy home idea. In Ireland there were other homes, the ones we don't talk about. I called this print Wit(h)nessing because I want to share the transmission of affect, where there's a sense of affective sharing, of ‘wit(h)nessing’ and ‘transmissibility’ of (traumatic) affect. Wit(h)nessing is a word-concept seeded in ideas of co-poiesis* by feminist theorist of affect, visual artist, and psychoanalyst Bracha Ettinger. While Ettinger is concerned with enlarging a notion of with-ness in thinking about human interdependence, resonant also is allusion to—and some unsettling of—the idea and practice of witnessing. I think of wit(h)nessing in terms of the double meaning of observation—to be an eyewitness, to see, to watch— to bear testimony and to share empathy.
Website: https://oonahyland.com
Instagram: @oonahyland
Edition: Yes; 12 of 30
Condition
Excellent Condition
Medium
etching with chine collé
Signature
Yes
