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Steffan Gwynn
Artes Mundi 10 JournalPenillion Rhyddid
Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Installation view at Chapter, Artes Mundi 10, 2023-24. Photography: Stuart Whipps
Overview
For the fifth commission in our series of texts developed as responses to some of Artes Mundi 10’s thematic throughlines, we present a fragment from a developing body of memoiristic fiction by Steffan Gwynn, which has been informed by Naomi Rincón Gallardo’s film trilogy at Chapter. Like previous texts in this series, ‘Penillion Rhyddid’ combines the mining of memory and personal experience with an emphasis on the political histories embedded in specific landscapes, in what is also a trance-like narrative of queer nightlife, protest and grief. (For more of Steffan’s geopoetic fiction, listen to his episode of the PenRhydd podcast with Marged Tudur and Grug Muse.)
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Steffan Gwynn
Steffan Gwynn is a landscape architect who frequently writes on related topics. Recent work has been published in O’r Pedwar Gwynt and The Ethnobotanical Assembly. He is originally from Uwch Gwyrfai, and will this year be running a deep mapping creative-engagement project with Yr Orsaf in Dyffryn Nantlle, which will explore that community’s relationship to its natural environment.Read more
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