Upcoming GOMA Waterford exhibition explores queer and feminist archives
Upcoming GOMA exhibition from artist Chloe Austin
'Living but a Day' is an ongoing travelling series of public interventions with Irish queer and feminist archive collections from artist Chloe Austin.
‘Living but a Day: Texere’, coming to the Gallery of Modern Art in Waterford this September, is a culmination of works by Austin as part of her practice based research, which explores the impact of text-based communication on queer and feminist expression across the country.
This multifaceted project is described as a combination of 'language, identity, and activism, tracing the evolution of queer representation', striving for a contemporary queer ‘living archive’.
Central to the ‘Living but a Day’ project is a devotion to queer and feminist printed ephemera and archival materials in Ireland. These artifacts are carefully and meticulously constructed to honour and preserve their rich stories.
Over the past year, through performative and collaborative approaches like re-speaking, repetition, and reinterpretation, these materials have been transformed into vessels by Austin, combining voices of the past with the realities of the present, through installations, performances, or interactive exhibitions.
Chloe Austin is an interdisciplinary artist working with text, performance and installation.
She is currently a PhD Researcher at Belfast School of Art, Ulster University.
Chloe completed her MFA at BSOA in 2020, after receiving her BA in Fine Art and Design at Crawford College in Cork in 2017.
Her current practice takes performative approaches to archival material and typographic history, through collaborative performance-led interventions and workshops.
The Exhibition runs at The Gallery of Modern Art on Lombard Street, from September 14, to October 13, with the official launch taking place on Saturday, September 14.
