Contradictory Senses

Contradictory Senses

Aideen Barry, Maud Cotter, Robert Dunne, Roseanne Lynch, Orla McKeever, Emma Wolf-Haugh

Curated by Pádraig Spillane

St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co. Waterford, P51 WV96, Ireland

3 September - 2 October 2022


The exhibition’s vantage point considers the intersections such responses hold toward what shapes the contemporary world. Through tactics of revisiting and reinterpreting, the artworks gathered bring attention to what affects and constructs lived experience. The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Sarah Hayden.

The exhibition title - Contradictory Senses, is taken from Raymond Williams’ examination of the word ‘improve’ in his 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
The exhibition's vantage point considers the intersections such responses hold toward what shapes the contemporary world. Through tactics of revisiting and reinterpreting, the artworks gathered bring attention to what affects and constructs lived experience.

Image: Robert Dunne, Untitled, 2019, plaster, wood, metal, 26 x 30 x 40 cm

Image (banner & homepage): Emma Wolf-Haugh, Lesbian flaneuring Unité d'habitation March 27, 2019

Install views below taken by Jed Niezgoda.