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A one-night-only intimate performance from an acclaimed Irish singer and songwriter exclusively for Cork Midsummer Festival.
€30
Renowned artist Tino Sehgal’s This youiiyou pays tribute to the bonds of care and love between generations – between child and guardian – in this fleeting constructed situation between infants and their parents.
Created in 2023 in dialogue with El Greco’s The Adoration of the Shepherds, This youiiyou transforms and expands that tribute to life itself by honouring the birth of children and those that care for them. Parents and infants participate together as voice, rhythm, body language and affections that create an inspiring live encounter between the spectator and those enacting the work.
Critically acclaimed artist Tino Sehgal is known worldwide for his artistic practice of ‘constructed situations’ between visitors and participants. A previous winner of prizes such as the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and the Hans Molfenter Prize, Sehgal has exhibited in some of the world's biggest galleries from Tate Modern in London to New York's Guggenheim, Palais de Tokyo in Paris to Hong Kong's Tai Kwun.
This youiiyou was originally commissioned by Fundación Botín and exhibited at Centro Botín in 2023. El Greco’s The Adoration of the Shepherds is part of the Fundación Botín collection. Photography by Belen de Benito courtesy of Fundación Botín.
"[the room] has never before been so empty of things and so full of sensations and intangible experiences ... everything experienced seems beautiful from the first minute" ABC on Thisyouiiyou
"Sehgal’s art evokes passionate reactions" The New York Times on Tino Sehgal's work
"He has created some of the most affecting exhibitions of the past couple of decades" The Guardian
