Christopher Mahon

Sincere, or what you will

20 September 2024 – 19 January 2025

VISUAL is pleased to present Sincere, or what you will, a solo exhibition by Irish artist Christopher Mahon.

Mahon's sculptural works investigates language, poeticism, and material form. The artist has worked with actors and dancers in realising site-responsive environments and events, as well as producing sculptures with small industrial workshops. Mahon works across a wide range of materials, in his studio and onsite in studios and foundries specialising in stone and metalwork.

Sincere, or what you will is co-curated by Benjamin Stafford (VISUAL) and Rachael Gilbourne (IMMA, RGKSKSRG). A text by Gilbourne, An Ode to Spring, from the End of Winter, to the Start of Summer, accompanies the exhibition and will be available on the VISUAL website or in person in the gallery.

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Christopher Mahon is an Irish artist and the work for VISUAL was produced in his studio in Cairo. He attended the Ecole Jacques Lecoq Movement Research Laboratory, Paris, and holds an MA in Art and Research Collaboration from IADT. In 2018 – 2019 he was a resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

He has exhibited in Ireland and internationally since 2010. Recent projects include Paris Ass Book Fair, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2024), Aswan International Sculpture Symposium (2021), Rijksakademie Open Studios, Amsterdam, Le Menagerie de Verre, Paris, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, RGKSKSRG Cribs, Dublin (all 2019), Double Negative, ARKO Art Centre, Seoul and Active Archive, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (both 2018)

His work is held in private and public collections in Ireland, Europe and North America.