Alice Maher will be showing three bodies of work, including The Map, made with her fellow artist Rachel Fallon, a huge textile piece based on the life and legacy of Mary Magdalene. “We began collaborating in 2017,” says Fallon, who worked with Maher on the Artists’ Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment. “We’ve shown the work in Budapest and in New York, and it’s a really interesting time to understand how other people read these histories.”
Maher, one of Ireland’s most significant artists working today, describes the visit of Kouoh to her Mayo studio back in 2016. “It was testimony to her belief in human contact as a way of understanding the world,” she says. “She looked for the undercurrent in what’s going on.” She had also insisted that the EVA catalogue that year be translated into Irish, something more unusual a decade ago. “It’s as if she was able to mine that thing that was bubbling up.”
When Kouoh’s curators made a follow-up visit for Venice, they also selected Maher’s The Sibyls, an installation of four huge drawings and four sculptures and, almost as an afterthought, Les Filles d’Ouranos, first made in 1996.
Maher, one of Ireland’s most significant artists working today, describes the visit of Kouoh to her Mayo studio back in 2016. “It was testimony to her belief in human contact as a way of understanding the world,” she says. “She looked for the undercurrent in what’s going on.” She had also insisted that the EVA catalogue that year be translated into Irish, something more unusual a decade ago. “It’s as if she was able to mine that thing that was bubbling up.”
When Kouoh’s curators made a follow-up visit for Venice, they also selected Maher’s The Sibyls, an installation of four huge drawings and four sculptures and, almost as an afterthought, Les Filles d’Ouranos, first made in 1996.
May 5, 2026
