Project Arts Centre is delighted to share this new commissioned work by artist Roisín McGuigan in Szombathely, Hungary as part of Szombathely’s Bloomsday Festival. Commissioned by the City of Szombathely, Hungary and managed by Project Arts Centre, Dublin, this project is supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs. Sophie Motley & Sara Greavu from Project Arts Centre and Ragnar Almqvist from the Irish Embassy in Hungary were present at the launch of the festival and unveiling of Roisín’s mural.
A response to Chapter 10 of Joyce’s Ulysses, Wandering Rocks, the mural renders all the punctuation in the chapter as it appears in the 1922 edition.
Here the punctuation collides and interweaves and generates new forms, clusters and confusions. In Wandering Rocks these pauses are the spaces within which breaths are taken, thoughts get distracted, alliteration happens, time gets fused or stretched, protagonists meet, and inner monologues turn into conversations.
This mural presents Joyce’s punctuation far removed from their original context – collaged and abstracted, they are out of place, absurd, and the mural’s wordless chaos coaxes onlookers to indulge their own inner monologue.
Roisíns McGuigan joins Hungarian artist Matyas Fursz who presents a brilliant new work situated inside Szombathelyi Képtár/Szombathely Municipal Art Gallery.
With thanks to project coordinator in Szombathely, artist István Szanto, Ambassador Ragnar Almqvist and Attached at Embassy of Ireland, Marianna Joo.
This project is made possible through the generous support of the mural project partners in Hungary and Dublin, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Embassy of Ireland, Hungary.
