Hanging off the edge, the apex, the precipice, the diving board, the monkey bars. The wind blowing in your hair. Your soul is seized and shaken till it tingles. Everyone’s losing their heads as you look around, trying to hold onto yours, by the ears, by the hair, by the seat belt. Humanity suspended. This revisitation of OBLIVION features eight stuffed sculptures (depicting McGinn’s close family and friends) each caught in a moment of thrilling fear, suspended on the tip of a rollercoaster track. Industrial fans blast the tiny figurines animating their hair and limbs. Alongside the installation, watercolours and drawings [harking back to Da Vinci’s studies of the divine and the grotesque] capture snapshots of rollercoaster riders in all their unmediated glory. OBLIVION is a state of the sublime unknown. This body of work from McGinn continues her fixation with observing the human tendency to chase heightened moments and the psychological drives underlying euphoria and despair. In the words of Ronan Keating, ‘…life is a rollercoaster, just gotta ride it.”

 

Exhibition duration: 23.02 - 26.04.2024