Inscriptions for pedestrians in the streets of Limerick, Irland, for the contemporary art biennial EV+A 1996, curator Guy Tortosa.
NEVER LOOK BACK
LOOK UP
WHAT’S LEFT?
WHAT’S RIGHT?
When we had just finished writing NEVER LOOK BACK, an old lady passed by, saying : “I wish I hadn’t…” And underneath WHAT’S RIGHT? someone added, in chalk : “I don’t know.”
In 2022, the EVA International art biennial celebrates its 45th anniversary under the paradoxical title NEVER LOOK BACK, as a tribute to our urban intervention of 1996.
In 2023 for the 40th edition of the biennial, Michele Horrigan revisits the archives to create an artistic Monopoly, GET ART. The inscriptions WHAT’S LEFT? and WHAT’S RIGHT? are a step of the board game.
→ Text by Guy Tortosa, 1997
→ Limerick Post, 2022
→ Get Art, EVA International, Limerick 2023
→ Never Look Back, EVA International, 2024
The work is published in the Dico de l’art urbain, a dictionnary of urban art by Quentin Gassiat, éditions Gallimard - collection Alternatives, Paris 2023.
