To coincide with their exhibition Family Lines, Alice Rekab introduces some of the concepts and approaches behind their project FAMILY LINES.
Alice Rekab’s work explores embedded personal and cultural narratives; the stories that we tell and the stories that we are told about ourselves. This work emerges from their own mixed-race Irish identity, their family history, experiences of growing up, and the context of present day Ireland. Working across film, sculpture, performance, print and installation, they deftly consider the making of one’s belonging through the prisms of the body, the family and the nation state, exploring associated joy and trauma.
We are delighted to announce an In Conversation event where our Learning and Engagement Curator, Fernando Sánchez-Migallón Cano will talk to David Lunney, Áine McBride and Katie Watchorn about the many aspect of the From Here to There exhibition project. The conversation will take on Thursday, 3 February, from 7 pm at The Douglas Hyde. […]
We are delighted to share this article by Dr Jill Unkel, Curator of Western Collections at the Chester Beaty Library, in which she considers the tradition of books of hours and their influence on the Kristen Pieroth‘s work.
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