ALL IS LAVENDER | SEÁN O’RIORDAN 

GIAF 2024

Engage Art Studios are thrilled to announce our exciting new solo exhibition by Seán O’Riordan as part of Galway International Arts Festival 2024.

All Is Lavender is curated by Rita McMahon and will launch on :

Sunday, July 14th at 1pm

Engage Art Studios, Churchfields, Salthill.

The exhibition will run until July 28th, 2024. For more information visit giaf.ie

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Through the presentation of new sculptural work at Engage Gallery and Studios, O'Riordan weaves cultural and personal parallels between Queer Lexicon and the Irish Language, drawing from their individual histories of suppression and concealment, exclusion, and sanctuary.

This exhibition attempts to disrupt the traditional understanding of value by merging the imagery and language of bureaucratic and ad hoc currencies, which extend beyond the economic to encompass social and cultural significance.

Utilizing imagery, fonts, text, language, and slogans from various types of currency, O'Riordan employs these elements as tools for uncovering narratives and stories of place, aiming to present a decolonial queer reinterpretation of value

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Seán O’Riordn is a Galway-born artist whose practice encompasses sculpture, writing, graphic design, and digital processes. Seán's practice revolves around the politics of perceptibility, exploring issues of opacity and fragmentation through the lens of value, sexuality, magic, communication, and language. This is often done by examining linguistic, material, and sexual economies, attempting to reconcile issues of individual and collective value.

Seán currently works between the Netherlands and Ireland. For more info about Seán and their work please see their website seanoriordan.info.