The Fall,
Ben Mullen, Peter Maybury, Tom dePaorSoft wood, sheep’s wool, single channel video with stereo sound, looped, 450 x 450 x 450cm
November 2024 ‘Subtle Foreshadowing’ is trending on TikTok: footage of people falling, with the ending intercut throughout. The Fall takes 58 of these clips, recut to release other possible readings. Many of the clips are imprinted with the words ‘Subtle foreshadowing”, and this is left intact, making explicit their rerouting. In the midst of decadence, decline, and collapse we fall off, fall over, fall down.
The architecture is a doorway and a window for this point of view. An ‘A’ frame. Both glyph and trestle, the structure is a calligram, 4.5 metres high and wide, made of off the shelf 2x4” softwood timbers, draped in wool, uncut and off the shelf, to produce a successively insulated top-lit chamber. The curtain walls form an opening into the attic space. The light, itself a recording, is, like the other material components, off-the-shelf and borrowed for reuse.
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Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
RHA, Peter McGovern
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2025
Peter Maybury