'And the walls became the world all around' Karen Birkin

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Karen Birkin
And the walls became the world all around
2020-2022
Oil on canvas



Many residents at the Plas Bodfa care home had dementia, confused about place and time. These paintings imagine the liminal space they inhabited, using the strange costumed figures from First Nacht to enter into these alternate realities. Are they psychopomps, signalling the journey to the next world?  


As a part of Bodfa Continuum - the possibilities of time, an exhibition at Plas Bodfa from the 9-24th of April 2022.

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