Curated by Aoife Banks and Brendan Fox, Supported by The Arts Council
The Tides of Monumental Gesture features the work of ten artists: Irish-Iraqi multidisciplinary artist Basil Al-Rawi, Swedish visual artist Ella Bertilsson, Irish visual artist and educator Sarah Edmondson, Éireann and I’s curator and researcher Beulah Ezeugo and cultural producer Joselle Ntumba with Adesewa Awobadejo, Romanian visual artist and researcher Istvan Laszlo, Indian visual artist and filmmaker Pradeep Mahadeshwar, Brazilian interdisciplinary artist Thaís Muniz, Irish multidisciplinary visual artist Alan Phelan, and is curated by Brendan Fox and Aoife Banks.
Artist Spotlight: Pradeep Mahadeshwar
Originally from India and now an Irish citizen. Their work explores identities through the collection of stories, illustrations based on surreal-looking satires of sexual racism and meditative surreal moving images to fantasise alternative emotional landscapes with infinite new possibilities. Through their artwork, they are researching the effects of sexual racism on the mental and sexual health of Queer People Of Colour living in Ireland.
𝐀𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐡 𝐅𝐚𝐨𝐢 𝐆𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐚 – 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝
A short film that intertwines an ancient Indian mythological story with the beauty of the Irish language. The tale provides profound poetic and psychological insights into themes such as transformation, gender identity, migration, displacement, and the pursuit of equilibrium. The narrative can be seen as an exploration of gender identity and fluidity. The character’s alternating gender underscores the non-binary aspect of gender, indicating that identity is not static but can encompass various manifestations. This narrative has powerful metaphors for the psychological experience of displacement and the need for adaptation. This transformation mirrors the challenges faced by migrants and displaced individuals, highlighting the film’s relevance to contemporary issues of identity and self-perception.
