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CODA
Artist residency: February - April 2023
Exhibition: 21 - 29 April 2023
Pascale Steven
Pascale Steven is an artist based in Derry. Her work reflects an ongoing interest in ideas revolving around identity and perception; the nature of memory and experience. Much of her work has explored a response to life events on a personal and public basis and often examines an interior world that is in conflict with the neat exterior we present. This work represents a new project very much informed by the potential of the space itself both as a studio for production and a space for display. Using the idea of a ‘coda‘ as a metaphor grew during the course of the residency and refers as much to the shifting arrangement of the objects in the space as it does to the sound that they are merged with. They form a point of stoppage or the cessation of a movement that could take a multitude of forms. They happen to have stopped in their current configuration at this moment in time. A coda is a term that refers to a concluding passage of music or a piece of movement and the installation created in the process of this residency has become a way of considering both a stage in a life and a means of thinking about the formal resolution of work. Processes used include drawing, objects, video; sound composed and performed by Rónán McFeely.
Pascale Steven was born in London and studied fine art at University of East London. Since 1991 Pascale Steven has lived in Ireland and works in Derry. Exhibitions include Tracer at Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Endless Revolution at Context Gallery, Derry; Erasure at The Old Museum, Belfast; No Direction Home at Art Arcadia, Derry; Out of The Dark Invisible Portraits, Void Studio Gallery, Derry, UK City of Culture Project; Pause and All The World’s a Stage, Derry City Council/Void project Video Text Projection on City Walls Guildhall Square, Derry.
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This residency is funded by Derry City & Strabane District Council and Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and is in partnership with St Augustine’s Heritage Site.
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