Distributed Through Space and Time
Curated by Sarah McAvera; featuring artists: Christopher Campbell; Deirdre Mckenna; and Zoe Murdoch.
Curated by Sarah McAvera, Distributed through Space and Time offers three artists Nabokov’s Pale Fire as the starting point of a discussion on the blurred lines between reality and fiction. Christopher Campbell, Deirdre Mckenna and Zoe Murdoch have dissected the enigmatic text to create equally inscrutable and perplexing works across a range of media.
PALE FIRE
(A Poem in Four Cantos)
CANTO 1
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane
I was the smudge of ashen fluff–and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky,
And from the inside, too, I’d duplicate
Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate:
Uncurtaining the night, I’d let dark glass
Hang all the furniture above the grass,
And how delightful when a fall of snow
10 Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so
As to make chair and bed exactly stand
Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!
Nabokov
Supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council