New exhibition in Limerick brings together an array of artists
A NEW exhibition drawing a connection between human and planetary exhaustion will be featured at Ormston House.
Curated by Lucy Lopez, Get Well Soon (prologue) borrows its title from a 2020 text by Johanna Hedva, written in the midst of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lucy was selected as a guest curator through an open call earlier this year. Get Well Soon (prologue) brings together works by Roo Dhissou, Kyla Harris & Lou Macnamara, Rowena Harris, Bint Mbareh, Harun Morrison (with Satpreet Kahlon), Jamila Prowse, Benoît Piéron, Lorenzo Sandoval, and Rehana Zaman.
The long-term project Get Well Soon acknowledges a state of sickness: societal, planetary, interpersonal. In a time where care is in crisis, how can the space of art model new imaginaries and ways of living? How can we work in and of a place of sickness rather than under the illusion of wellness? How can we build rest, community care, and restorative justice into our work?
Get Well Soon (prologue) engages with ideas of pacing: the engineered flows of waterways, the way time is experienced – sometimes measured in spoons – for disabled and chronically ill communities, and the way that daily routines can be imbued with ideas of family and grief.
From Rehana Zaman’s exploration of the social currencies and economies of modern agriculture in Arbroath, Scotland to Lorenzo Sandoval’s narrativising of ecological degradation in south-eastern Spain, the works exhibited also acknowledge the impacts of capitalist and colonial extraction on both our bodies and our environments. Sitting with ideas of sickness, burnout, and loss, the exhibition aims to also depict world-building possibilities and joy.
Audio descriptions of the artworks will be made available after the opening.
The exhibition will run from now until February 3, 2024.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
Get Well Soon (prologue) is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Limerick City and County Council.