CIELO/SKY
Caoife Power

25th February - 27th February 2023

CIELO/ SKY is a series of paintings that each share their own impressions of the sky that linger long after its initial experience has removed itself. As Goethe notes, ’If anyone looks at the sun (they) may retain the image in (their) eyes for several days.’ So how do we grasp this experience?

‘Cielo’ in Spanish speaks of atmosphere, translating the English ’sky’ to a space in the air that colours it. These paintings perform a translation of words in an embodied choreography. Neither absent or present, they consider where the sky begins and ends. Acknowledging the world outside is much greater than us, the paintings remind us to look up.