Curated by Megs Morley, the thought-provoking collection intertwines a range of media to examine and critique the enduring legacies of colonialism and patriarchy.
Through drawings, wall paintings, collage and the ancient gilding technique of verre églomisé, de Búrca toys with the vocabulary of colonial aesthetics, using strategies of mimicry and irony as political tools to critique the superiority of ‘high art’.
Born in Munich but spending her childhood in the west of Ireland, this will be de Búrca’s first solo exhibition in her home town.
Included in this exhibition is a new film installation ‘Suspended Scream’. This is a collaboration with French Syrian artist Tai?m Haimet to respond to an old tape de Búrca shot in 2005 while in Palestine, to interrogate conflicting issues around inheritance, privilege and negation. By looking through the lens of Western art, de Búrca points to the role that art has played in the legitimisation of colonial projects – and the power it also has to dismantle and decolonise these structures.
