Sean Lynch Screening Event

Online Screening and In-Conversation Event

Sean Lynch: Tak’ Tent O’ Time Ere Time Be Tint

Wednesday 18 August 2021, 5pm

View the resources compiled for this event:

PDF Booklet – An Interview Between Sean Lynch and Lesley Young.

Shared Resources document with further information and links.

This online event includes a screening of Sean Lynch’s new video work Tak’ Tent O’ Time Ere Time Be Tint followed by an in-conversation with the artist and Catalina Lozano and the opportunity to ask questions.

Lynch and Lozano are long standing confidants whose research interests converge around the politics of the public realm and new approaches to presenting and distributing artist’s projects. Lozano’s project The Cure, 2018, was published by Askeaton Contemporary Arts, the artist-led residency, exhibition and publication initiative Lynch runs with Michele Horrigan in the west of Ireland. Lynch’s work has been included in several recent exhibitions organised by Lozano including Le jour des esprits est notre nuit, at CRAC Alsace, 2019, which explored the cracks within western Modernity; and Winning by Losing at CentroCentro in Madrid, 2019, which, considered the paradigm of progress through contemporary artistic practices and historical documents. The potential for rethinking progress from alternative perspectives – counter-hierarchical, mystical, physical – is inherent within Lynch’s new commission at ESW which explores and exposes the ethical and material vulnerabilities of the representations of success and power within our public spaces. The resulting work is at once hyper-focused on the political and physical make-up of Edinburgh whilst dealing with questions of representation which echo across many cities around the globe.

Catalina Lozano (b 1979, Bogotá) is an independent curator and researcher based in Mexico City and the Director of Programs in Latin America at Kadist. For the past 10 years, she has been interested in minor narratives that question hegemonic forms of knowledge. The analyses of colonial narratives as well as the deconstruction of the modern division between nature and culture have acted as departure points for many of her recent curatorial and editorial projects such as A Natural History of Ruins (Pivô, São Paulo 2021), The willow sees the heron’s image upside down (TEA, Tenerife, 2020), Le jour des esprits et notre nuit (CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, 2019, co-curated with Elfi Turpin), Winning by Losing (CentroCentro, Madrid, 2019), Ce qui ne sert pas s’oublie (CAPC, Bordeaux, 2015), and The Cure published by ACA Public, Askeaton, 2018.

Sean Lynch lives and works in Askeaton, Ireland. He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Solo exhibitions include Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2019); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2017); Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver (2106); Rose Art Museum, Boston (2016) and Modern Art Oxford (2014). More recent presentations of his work have occurred at Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (2020); CentroCentro, Madrid (2019), and CRAC Alsace (2019), while a major public commission for the City of Melbourne, Australia will be realised later this year. Lynch is represented by Ronchini Gallery in London and Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. Alongside Michele Horrigan, he works at Askeaton Contemporary Arts, an artist-led residency, exhibition and publication initiative situated in the west of Ireland since 2006.

Tak’ Tent O’ Time Ere Time Be Tint is co-commissioned by Edinburgh Art Festival and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Supported by the PLACE Programme, a partnership between Edinburgh Festivals, Scottish Government, City of Edinburgh Council and Creative Scotland, with additional support from Culture Ireland, the University of Aberdeen, Museums Galleries Edinburgh and National Museums Scotland.

Part of our Summer Programme alongside other commissions which you can visit at ESW and events throughout the summer.