LA SALLE DE TAUREAUX, meaning ‘The Hall of Bulls’, draws its title from the opening passageway of the paleolithic rock art complex at Lascaux, a hallway-like cave decorated with bulls and other animals. The UNESCO world heritage site formed a central part of the research of Mikala Dwyer and Paul Yore during their residency at Stonehouse in Chenaud, Dordogne, France in 2023.
LA SALLE DE TAUREAUX enmeshes the overlapping interests of the two artists, who have both established richly experimental practices that draw deeply from the idea of queerness, mysticism, ritual and the transmutability of diverse materialities. Bringing together a suite of Dwyer’s sculptural work in clay and mixed media, and a sound work by Yore, this exhibition also features a collaborative wall painting, drawing diversely from the tradition of Socialist murals, Picasso’s Guernica, street art, and abstract and hybrid motifs from the cave painting at Lascaux itself, such as the quizzical half bird, half man figure.
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