Drums and Silence
Cal Mac
Exhibition Opening
Join us for our big opening night at the Pipe Factory to discover Scottish artist Cal Mac's new exhibition and celebrate the first evening of the Aye Festival.
Drums and Silence is a 4-day long exhibition featuring print, sculpture, sound, video, and performance. This will be Mac’s first large scale exhibition and his most ambitious project yet. The body of work will expand on themes in his first film ‘Agony to Ecstasy’, looking at binaries such as work and pleasure, stress and relief and entrapment and escape. The exhibition includes new sound and sculptural works, which focus specifically on minimum wage jobs and the effects of their monotonous nature on mental health and identity. In the same space, large scale prints will focus on euphoric memories of clubbing – capturing ephemeral moments of intimacy and anonymity on dancefloors. Mac's previous video works will also be shown, as well as a collaboration with performer Alliyah Enyo. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the exhibition will use conflicting expressions and mediums to dissect socio-addictive culture in Scotland, at both a personal and political scale.
Cal Mac is a visual artist working and living in Glasgow. Working between sculpture, sound print and video, he explores themes of belonging and addiction through sociological, scientific and visual dialogues. His work often looks at clubbing and natural environments, enquiring into our current emotional condition and need for connection. His work has been screened at Atlas Arts (Skye), The Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh), Limerick Institute of Technology, and online for Lift off Festival, and Film and Video Umbrella. Following his first commission from Film and Video Umbrella in 2020, Mac has done residencies at Cove Park and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. In 2021 Mac was shortlisted for the Royal Scottish Academy Morton Award.
Join us for the after party at Bonjour around 11pm.
Ground Floor, The Pipe Factory, 42 Bain St, Glasgow G40 2LA
Doors open at 7pm
18+ | Content: Suicide, addiction, substance abuse
Wheelchair accessible
Pay as you can
This exhibition is open from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th, 12pm to 6pm.
Join us for the after party at Bonjour around 11pm.