Limerick exhibition featuring work of mother and daughter will run for another week

ART lovers still have just over a week to catch the Sore Spot exhibition in the city. 

Artists Helen and Eva O'Leary opened the exhibition in the Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) on Friday, November 21 and it will continue to run until Sunday, January 18. 

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Organisers say that the works featured go really well together and when looked at in combination, they “aim to find moments of clarity and connection offering a meditation on care, resistance and the stubborn hope that emerges from making sense of a broken world.”

The dynamic of the two artists as mother and daughter also brings another layer and interesting element to the work being viewed both alone and as a joint body. 

The artists used their work to look at their relationship as mother and daughter, while also examining the generational gap between them, as well as other differences in the way they work and use materials. 

“It's about what the hands can make when words fail, how materials can offer a kind of reconciliation - or at least a pause in the noise,” organisers say. 

In a world filled with news, constant lists, social media, doom scrolling and so much more, it can be difficult to find a moment of pause or calm - this exhibition offers an opportunity to escape, to contemplate and to block it all out, if even just for a short while. 

The exhibition looks at breaking down language, the patriarchy, capitalism and beauty.

Eva's works include photographs of girls reacting to their own mirror images, while Helen's work blurs the lines between painting and sculpture. 

It's hoped that people who come to visit the exhibition will pause for thought, consider the themes behind the works and also discover some empathy and humour. 

The pieces are described as being political, personal and formal in ways.

Sore spot runs in the Limerick City Gallery of Art  in the Carnegie Building,  in Pery Square until Sunday, January 18.