Dolomites

äres

| Irma Irsara

I’m very pleased to be participating in äres, a exhibition of the work of fourteen women associated with the ladino-speaking area of Val Badia (BZ) in Italy.

It’s very significant for me to return to my roots to show my climate-change film Metamorphosis in this special venue, which is less than a kilometer from my family home in the Dolomites. The region has seen significant events in recent years due to climate change, including the collapse of the Marmalada glacier in 2022 or Storm Vaia in 2018 which caused massive damage to the mountain ecosystem, knocking down about eight million cubic metres of timber,

The exhibition is sponsored by EPL – Ert por i Ladins ODV as well as Raiffeisen, Provinia Autonoma di Bolzano and Hotel Pider.

The soundtrack for the video was created by musician and composer Jonathan Lambert.

14 artistes dla Val Badia é arjignades y s’inviëia

Drawing a Line Under Torture

| Irma Irsara

Drawing a Line Under Torture, Freedom from Torture‘s biennial charity art auction takes place 8 November 2017 – 12 November 2017 at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, South Bank, London

To bid on the work below and many other pieces, please follow the link:
http://ow.ly/6pCf30g8Ona

All works will continue to be on display until the close of the public exhibition and will be available for collection from Tuesday 14 November 2017

Freedom from Torture is a UK-based human rights organisation, and one of the largest torture rehabilitation centres in the world; it is the only specialist national charity working to ensure the rehabilitation and protection of torture survivors seeking refuge in the UK. Since it’s establishment in 1985, more than 57,000 survivors of torture have been referred to us.

Fonte (Fount)
Cotton fibre pulps, direct dyes
52cm x 47cm
2017
Guide Price: £760
Framed

Irma Irsara’s work is heavily influenced by the natural environment in which she grew up – the foothills of Monte Croce in the Italian Dolomites. She has a special interest in ecology, conservation and climate change. ‘Fonte’ reflects an early childhood moment in a place revisited but now changed due to the effects of stream erosion. The title refers not only to rising water through cracks in the bedrock but also the idea of innocent thought set against the backdrop of succeeding stages of life.

Irsara’s practice encompasses a broad range of media and techniques with the ‘pulp work’ representing a large part of her recent output. The wet-on-wet process involves building up strata of dyed pulp which can be further modified through embedding, sculpting, ripping, embossing etc. She exhibits both in the UK and abroad.