Eastlink Gallery is pleased to present Cutting a Door at the gallery’s Shanghai space. The exhibition includes works by Martin Healy, Nevan Lahart, Susan MacWilliam, Niamh McCann, Fiona Mulholland, Seamus Nolan, Alan Phelan, Amanda Rice.

The initial idea for the project was inspired by artist John William Waterhouse’s painting Magic Circle, 1886. The exhibition considers the idea of witchcraft and occultism in the current age at a time when belief structures are being explored and reinvented.   

The origins and history of witchcraft have been intensely debated by practitioners, skeptics and historians throughout the last century, during which time we've witnessed a growing wave of interest in witchcraft. Much of this can be attributed to the work of just a handful of people - notably Margaret Murray and Gerald Gardner the man responsible for the creation of Wicca; the rising popularity in, and growing respect for, the study of anthropology in the academic world and, more recently, the incredible New Age phenomenon that has taken the West, especially America and the UK, by storm. The decline of the Christian Church in Western society since the 1950s may also have played its part in the process, in addition to the ease with which it is possible to source reading material in the digital age. [1]       
1. C.J.Lewis, “The Origins & History of Witchcraft:” An Introduction.

A text by Wu Xiaofeng will accompany the exhibition.
    
Kindly supported by Culture Ireland and Cork City Council