Messagers’ Forum

Patrick Mahon

September 16 2020 – January 10 2021

Artist Talk: September 18 & 19, 2020

Messagers’ Forum is an installation that poses questions about culture, nature, communication, and meaning. In a space of emblematic drawings, collaged landscapes, and recorded speech, we experience a setting where spoken exchanges between people in the community are suggested as being desirable and available to us, but also sometimes elusive and fleeting. It is a place where nature is presented as more than a backdrop, as if to describe a theatre for an unwritten drama.

Messagers’ Forum extends from Mahon’s longstanding practice with print media, sculpture, and art projects that engage themes of environment, and decolonization. With Messagers’ Forum, Mahon addresses a world filled with beauty, contradiction, and injustice to ask two essential questions, “Can we be Messagers that connect, build, hope, and dream - together?” And if so, “How do we reach across?”

Robert Enright interview with Patrick Mahon

Robert Enright interviewed Patrick Mahon about his practice and the exhibition Messagers’ Forum. An expert of that interview was recorded and can be viewed in the bellow video. The full interview can be read in the exhibition publication.