Alice Maher was intrigued by a Victorian painting hanging in Swansea Museum
called ‘The Death of Sarah Dillwyn’. It is a group portrait
of all the living members of the child's family ranged around her bed
at the very moment of her death. The artist’s effort to 'freeze
the moment' was particularly poignant and set Maher off on a similar quest,
but toward an entirely different type of art work - a large scale sculpture
that investigates the form of 'bed' and the meaning of 'memory' through
the action of freezing.
‘‘MNEMOSYNE’ is a frozen object which hums quietly in
the middle of the main gallery at Swansea Museum while layers of frost
creep over the surface to chill the air with associated ideas’.
Alice Maher 2002
