Catalog

Chain Gang - 2016

Opera de quatre sous - 2010 Nuit Blanche

Nothing stops a new-yorker - 2005

La Gégène - 2007

Surround - 2015 - Centre Pompidou

CrackHouse 2009

Nature Morte 1996 - 2011

Strange Fruits - 2010 - jardin des plantes Paris

“Power and the poetry of money, the increasingly narrower latitude available for political action, the role of the self-generating war, the iciness of society, the execution of nature – these are the themes to which Malachi Farrell draws our eye, as well as to a bunch of cables, hoses, aluminum sheets, contraptions, and electronic parts everywhere, to which movement and sound are added. The result is loud and wild. The machinery is visible; it is meant to be visible. The artist reveals to us what holds the world together at its core, but he does so very much from the perspective of a rapper version of a French artist-intellectual who has declared his support for the principle of political responsibility to society. What is commonly called an “installation” in an artistic context here turns into the dramatization of a politically engaged Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts) with a tendency to become a world machine, an artistic firework that does not shy away from a symbolic and mechanical explanation of the world. In truth, it is no longer an exhibition. What we see is a theater for robots, machines, automated puppets, and everyday objects set in motion, driven by pneumatic compressors, hydraulics, motors, and dancing mechanics. “Can’t you do anything domestic?” is not infrequently the reaction of collectors and curators, who like to instrumentalize artists as remote-control interior decorators or theory designers."

Nothing Domestic: Laughter and Horror by Martin Schick
Excerpt from the Foreward for the exhibition catalogue: "Malachi Farrell Manipulation"
Galerie Stadt Backnang, REVOLVER, Germany, 2002.

No Money No Honey - 2011

Paparazzi - 1999 - 2000

Breaking Point - 2010

Pow - 1999

No Return - 2015

To early for vacation - Ireland - 2008

Fish Flag Mourant 1998

Atomic House - 2016

What's next Part One - 2003

Malachi Farrell hooliganisme football business

Hooliganisme - 1997

Rom & Dub - 2011

The Sandy Effect - 2013

Nothing Domestic - 2003

The shops are Closed - 1994

O'Black - 2004

Praxi - 2011

Hang On - 2009

Wood - 1997

Malachi Farrell’ deals with major political and social issues, past and present, in a narrative mode.

He combines craft and ingenious technology to achieve a Gesamkunstwerk (synthesis of arts) through the use of sound, light, machines, everyday materials and articulated objects.

Crucial to the understanding : Farrell’s work is that his sculptures are not fixed objects, but spectacular, overwhelming, grotesque.