Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon: The Map

The Map is a monumental textile sculpture that imagines and re-imagines the life, legacy, and mythology of Mary Magdalene and her impact on women’s lives. Sewn, hand-embroidered, and painted over a three-year period, the artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon approached the subject through the lens of the medieval Mappa Mundi, using elements of the cartographer’s practice as a device for their exploration. The Map addresses false narratives of the Magdalene, charting the social, political, and psychic changes that have loosened the knots of history in their own country, and traces an historical, mythological, and future cosmology that is fluid and full of possibility.

This exhibition will be accompanied by We Are The Map, a text and soundscape by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon in response to the work.

Presented as part of New York Textile Month.

The Map by Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher was commissioned by Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre as part of The Magdalene Series curated by Maolíosa Boyle, funded by The Arts Council, Creative Ireland, South Dublin County Arts Office, and Rua Red.

PAST EVENTS

Opening reception and artist talk with Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon, moderated by Maolíosa Boyle // Friday, September 6

On Art, Motherhood, and Reproductive Rights: Artist talk with Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon, moderated by Hettie Judah // Saturday, September 7

Irish Arts Center and Visual Artists Ireland present: Untying the Knots, Online Artist Talk // Thursday, September 26

DIY Aprons of Power Performance // Saturday, September 28

"It’s this fraught chain of archaic misogyny, papal projection, and institutional abuse that Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher’s The Map seeks to revisit"—SUE RAINSFORD

"An uncompromising tour of pain and shame, shot through with humour and icons of resistance"—IRISH ARTS REVIEW

Presented with generous support from Culture Ireland.