A Collision of multimedia on show at Scariff Library

COLLISION, a collaborative show between Isabelle Gaborit and Simon Large, was launched in Scariff Library this week.
In this multimedia collaborative body of work, artist Isabelle Gaborit and writer Simon Large are presenting people, collaboratively and individually, both poetry and visual art, intending to shift the emotional centre: thereby generating movement back and forth between two receptive fields, to encourage people to see poetry and art differently, perhaps to set them off balance. So you may move from the poem to the painting or vice versa, but also they exist autonomously from each other
Large creates texts to accompany the paintings that make the words as vital as the images. The poems are not an understanding of the respective paintings but a reflection, a response to their vibes.
He has responded to some works already existed, reflecting, completing and extending. In some cases, the image and words existed side by side, while in some instances, the text was written and then incorporated into the visual work as it was being made; text blending with image rather than existing beside it.
Gaborit explores liminality and threshold. Anthropologist Victor Turner has described it as ‘a place that is not a place and a time that is not a time’. In her work, she is exploring this threshold place, this space in between space, neither here nor there, a space of transformation between phases of separation and re-incorporation, representing a marginal state or period of ambiguity. Gaborit’s paintings and the texts coexist, juxtapose blends that merge and emerge, knitting two worlds together.
Resolution is not being sought but rather it is perceived as a vital process when working with opposing forces.
The creative relationship between Isabelle Gaborit and Simon large started a year ago, when Simon commissioned Isabelle to provide drawings during an archaeological survey he was undertaking. It was during this period that they shared and discussed his poetry and other writing he had done, mainly for his own enjoyment. What followed was the concept of creating poetry and / or art that reflected – inspired each to the other. The poetry associated with this exhibition is his first public presentation. The exhibition will run until Friday April 29.