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Catrin Menai
Artes Mundi 10 JournalALAW TU HWNT I NI²
Taloi Havini
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At the core of Catrin Menai’s practice is a search for “a language that falls more freely, like rocks or dust,” as she wrote, in Welsh, in an email a few weeks ago. In ‘ALAW TU HWNT I NI²’ (which continues the inquiries of Catrin’s contribution to TROI, TROSI, a collective research project on which we collaborated last year) she layers poetic fragments, correspondences and archival materials to perform a series of call-and-responses: between languages, eras and geographies, and between Taloi Havini’s Artes Mundi 10 exhibition at Mostyn and Catrin’s own ongoing project of excavating familial memory and ‘knowledge-holding’ across generations.
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Catrin Menai
Catrin Menai is an artist based between Bethesda (north Wales) and Glasgow. She creates narrative-driven works using the communicative potential of everyday objects, gestures, and place. Through film, writing and found objects, and grounded as much in chance encounter as in close study, she explores ways of thinking with our world, considering care and love as a material space for knowledge-making. Her work has been exhibited at Mostyn and The Turner House, and published with Poetry Wales. She completed an MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 2021. www.catrinmenai.co.ukRead more
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