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Bea McMahon
exhibition views at Masseria Torre Coccaro
21st August - 12th November 2022
Dominated by its 16th-century tower, the Masseria is the host of the conversation that Bea McMahon establishes with the specificity of the place where it is located, and specifically with its enchanting olive grove, through the conception of an intervention that enhances the beauty and presence of its century-old trees.
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Photos by Marino Colucci
Through installation, performance art, and video, her research reflects on multiple conceptions of reality and their corresponding manifestations in the external world. Trained in science, McMahon combines the use of mathematical and physical versions and associations, dealing with distinctions between objects, space and time, and symbols, with a poetic form of mediation between nonspeaking beings and the world.
Her most recent projects include solo exhibitions: Floppy Forest (2021), Treignac Projet, Treignac (FR); Under Bat Hill (2021), W139, Amsterdam (NL); Rank, Billytown (2017), Den Haag (NL); BOM (2015), CCA, Derry (GB-NIR); Cover (2014), Salzburg Kunstverein, Salzburg (A); Warp and Woof (2011), CCA, Glasgow (GB). In 2021 she performed for Ad ampio respiro at Artopia Gallery, Milan (IT); previously her actions took place in art spaces such as: Art Oost, PuntWG, FLAM VII Frascati Theatre, De Appel, Musiek Gebouw, Kunstverein and Bologna.cc in Amsterdam (NL), Tunnel in Rome (IT), The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (PL), The XII Baltic Triennial in Vilnius (LT); Volcano Extravaganza in Stromboli (IT).