Roads Less Travelled

This summer tour de force is the second chapter of an ongoing journey which started last year when Liliane and Ingrid drove across rural France arriving by sea ferry to Ireland in the reanimated Renault 4…
𝐿𝒾𝓁𝒾𝒶𝓃𝑒 𝒫𝓊𝓉𝒽𝑜𝒹 works in the style of an ad-hoc archaeologist. She excavates and displays her findings to reveal stories embedded in everyday consumables, whether found, repurposed or fabricated.

In 2024, Puthod embarked on a major multi-country project, that involved the repair of her late-father’s 1960s Renault 4 car. Resurrected from its place of rest in a dusty shed in rural France Puthod drove the reanimated ‘time machine’ cross-country, arriving to Ireland by sea ferry, and creating a temporary place of rest for the car in a large-scale installation in Dublin Port using two modified shipping containers. This work connected the vernacular history of the Renault 4 in France as the everyman’s voiture “Blue Jeans” to its role as a service vehicle in mid-century Ireland, in addition to the restorative powers of journeying and team-work.

𝐼𝓃𝑔𝓇𝒾𝒹 𝐿𝓎𝑜𝓃𝓈 writes fiction with an impressionistic blend of anecdote, observation, folklore and critical analysis, a perceptive invocation of material culture and intangible heritage in Ireland.
With a long spanning experience and sensitivity in the ethics of field research, her playing of Donegal fiddle music serves as a way of excavating the rich heritage of creativity, poetry and storytelling in Ireland, and connecting with the eminent fiddle players who have mentored her. Transience and the circulation of culture are both subject and embodied form within her practice as a writer, researcher and musician