‘More delicate than the historians’ are the map-makers’ colours,’ ‘More Elizabeth Bishop concluded in her poem ‘The Map’.
Cian Dayrit might well beg to differ. Both history and map-making have been central features of his artistic practice for more than a decade, and more often than not, they are intertwined.
When Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery put on ‘The Accursed Share’, a thematic exhibition concerned with debt and exchange, earlier this year, Dayrit’s ‘counter-cartography’ was a natural fit.
