Powerful new GOMA exhibition launched
Attending was artist Ben Hennessy. Photo: John Power
A three-person exhibition by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Jennifer Mehigan and Caoimhín Gaffney has launched at GOMA Waterford.
The exchange of skills and conversations between the three artists has resulted in work which explores the presentation of climate change in the media, with each artist exploring how ideas of ‘nature’ can be re-examined from a postcolonial and queer perspective.
Titled, ‘To be spat back out’, the work examines waste and excess through storytelling, images and texts.
The legacy of colonialism is examined as a material component of the climate crisis, and how the binary dynamics of indoor/outdoor and private/public spaces fail to imagine what is possible in the present.
Bassam Issa Al-Sabah is a visual artist working with digital animation, painting, sculpture and textiles.
The artist often builds and creates installations that interrogate the intersection of fantasy and trauma, employing speculative worlds as a lens through which to explore the mechanisms of memory and identity formation.
Caoimhín Gaffney is an artist, filmmaker and writer, whose work has been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally.
Gaffney's practice comprises of film, analogue photography, writing and installation to allow for a cross-pollination of ideas between the works.
Using paint, inkjet, neural networks, her garden and her phone, Jennifer Mehigan’s prints and paintings blend new and old methods of making and processing the world.
The exhibition is on display from now until August 23.
