"This is the case with the quality of being honeyed. Honey is a slow moving liquid; while it undoubtedly has a certain consistency and allows itself to be grasped, it soon creeps slyly from the fingers and returns to where it started from. It comes apart as soon as it has been given a particular shape, and what is more, it reverses the roles, by grasping the hands of whoever would take hold of it."  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

In the 1940's Maurice Merleau-Ponty produced a series of radio broadcasts and critical papers outlining his phenomenology of perception, a world of art perceived rather than known. The quality of being honeyed expresses the reciprocity of his phenomenological inter-subjectivity. Although Merleau-Ponty describes his world of perception in visual terms, the sensibility of his perception however is not that of vision. It is not vision that painting and philosophy has liberated from representation; it is sonic perception, which is free of the visual stranglehold on knowledge and experience. (Salomé Voegelin)

This exhibition was originally proposed as part of OG's Pop-up Gallery initiative in Gorey to use as an example of what could take place and develop by opening vacant spaces to artists. However we were delighted when SOMA Contemporary and Waterford City Council got in touch with us about hosting the show. 

Soon after, ARENA RTE Radio 1 got in touch to feature the show on their programme and it was subsequently selected as one of the top 5 shows to open across Europe at the time by Sound and Music London.