Developed during the COVID-19 lockdown periods, the work emerged through prolonged conditions of isolation, restricted movement, and limited physical contact. Working within the domestic environment, sculpture, painting, video, and sound evolved through improvised processes using materials close to hand. Kitchen surfaces, drying clothes, cooking utensils, industrial fragments, and bodily residue became part of the work’s shifting material structure.

Forms remain compressed, suspended, folded, and partially transformed. Materials stretch across confined spaces, absorbing pressure, repetition, and prolonged proximity. The domestic setting operates simultaneously as studio, living space, and site of containment, where bodily presence becomes heightened through its absence.

Across the installation, gestures of adaptation and self-construction unfold through unstable arrangements of objects, surfaces, and moving image. Online visibility, isolation, and continual self-exposure remain present as underlying conditions rather than fixed subjects. Meaning emerges gradually through accumulation, fragmentation, and material improvisation, where transformation remains incomplete and ongoing.

This exhibition was supported by the Arts Council of Ireland COVID Response Award 2020.
 

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