Poetry Responses to IMMA Collection exhibition – A Fiction Close to Reality
Read the three poems at the link below:
Mary Farl Powers, Mask Head 1, 1973, Monochrome etching, 30.5 x 25 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Donation, Powers Family, 2009
‘digital // distraction’, ‘Stains II’ and ‘Fear’ are three new poems by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, commissioned by IMMA and written in response to the IMMA Collection exhibition ‘A Fiction Close to Reality’, 15 Feb-14 Oct 2019. Enyi-Amadi’s poems relate to three specific works from the exhibition by Mary Farl Powers, Nalini Malani and Bassam Al-Sabah. In February of this year, Enyi-Amadi performed as part of the IMMA After event ‘Spoken Realities’ in association with Poetry Ireland. The IMMA After collective invited poets Maighread Medbh, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Padraig Regan and Temper-Mental Miss Elayneous into the gallery space to reflect on the themes within the IMMA Collection exhibition and to respond through spoken word performances
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