Please join us for the London and Dublin launch events of People of the Mud by Luis Alberto Rodriguez:  

 

Thursday 12 March 18.30–20.30 Donlon Books 75 Broadway Market London E8 4PH Drinks courtesy of London Fields Brewery

Saturday 14 March 16.00–19.00 The Library Project 4 Temple Bar Street Dublin D02 YK53 with a talk at 4pm,  more info online

 

People of the Mud is a powerful new series by Berlin-based US artist Luis Alberto Rodriguez, made collaboratively amongst the communities of County Wexford in Ireland, where ancient tradition and modern life rub shoulders daily.

With a background in professional dance, Rodriguez’s work pays tribute to the metaphorical weight of centuries of physical labour behind cultivating the landscape and maintaining cultural heritage. Images of scarred limbs and hands, from the field and from sport, function as a cartography of these bodies, as culture both shapes and is shaped by the individual. Elsewhere, we see the exaggerated glamour of modern female Irish dancers taken out of the glitzy ballrooms and into the fields, creating a rupture across time and space.

Books will be available for purchase and signing. Free admission for all.