In Conversation with Artist Etel Adnan

Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, in conversation with artist Etel Adnan, in Paris, 16 May 2015
Rachael Gilbourne, Assistant Curator: Exhibitions, IMMA, introduces the exhibition Etel Adnan at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Filmed and produced on the occasion of the solo presentation, Etel Adnan, in the Gordon Lambert Galleries, East Ground, Irish Museum of Modern Art, currently running until 13 September 2015. Photography Tom Byrne.

[@muhlenstedt]

Dear Etel Adnan, with all respect to you I know you have gone, but I would like to say that hearing you I feel transported into the world of the old fairy tale, as one pure girl speaks and just flowers come out her mouth. I see flowers and jewels in your words. Thank you for being within us making this world richer in beauty and humanity.

[@TonyPlant62]

"Our society I think needs art because the world is unneccesarily tense". Etel Adnan, thats the best reason Ive heard for years ! Safe travels, t

[@Mo-dg8xi]

Beautiful. So glad you did this interview with Etel. Would love to have tea with her and just talk. She is so interesting and amazing.

[@KitBottomleymusic]

I discovered this artist only a month or two ago when I hung a few for a client. I was deeply taken with them and they stuck in my mind even through Frieze art fair where I happened upon a few. having a closer look and listen has made my eyes swell a bit too. Thankyou Etal x

[@margorowe9052]

Excellent interview..artists have interesting insight🤩💙🦋

[@theaccount4841]

Etel Adnan is a treasure, and I'm grateful for the footage, but how I wish this interviewer was more thoughtful (and also knew her name). I'm trying to temper myself here a bit but oh my goodness, I really don't understand.

[@leticiacampos1044]

She always seems like she wants to be somewhere else.

[@ppegah]

we’ll miss you, Etel 💛

[@viince_vb]

Last works: instagram.com/p/Buk78SCFHnn/ , seen in Brussels this month!

[@natalieadra5687]

How can I reach Etel Adnan? Does she have an e-mail or sth?

[@louisangelides4106]

Greekmother.Case closed,Agape 22123

[@valskorupko8714]

She is a nice woman who took a political stance against the French establishment and being Arab stopped writing in French. But… is this a recipe for being called talented. Her printings are complete nuisance your have to go through to reach Vasily Kandinsky’s masterpieces. It is sad and insulting to viewers and to this poor grandma who I’m sure has never intended to be ridiculed this way.

[@EmlynBoyle]

Well she had a show in the IMMA for a start? And she is more multi-talented than you will probably ever be too. Oh, and how condescending are you with ‘nice woman’ and ‘poor granma’? Jealousy’s a terrible thing Val, as is your lousy grammar 🙄

[@EmlynBoyle]

Oh, and of course you have no subscribers or videos. Like all good trolls do 🤦🏻‍♀️