The Map / We Are the Map @ Rua Red | review for PVA

I reviewed The Map / We Are the Map at Rua Red for Paper Visual Art.

Mary Magdalene is often depicted weeping. Byzantine tapestries, medieval carvings, and Renaissance illustrations detail her suppliant tears flowing towards Christ’s feet, the same feet she will bathe and then dry with her unspooled hair. Whether she is sitting alone with her vessel of ointment or performing her damp labour under a table while Christ converses with other holy men, she is always repentant for her fleshy sins.

Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon, The Map (detail), 2021. Courtesy of Rua Red. Photo: Ros Kavanagh