The LAB Gallery
24th May – 11th June 2024.
Co-Curated by Julia Moustacchi and Clara McSweeney
Retrofuture brings together elements of three projects from 2023 by Hazel O’Sullivan. Topia exhibited at Trinity College Dublin, Cladding exhibited at Catalyst Arts, and Harvest Gold exhibited at The Solstice Arts Centre.
Resembling household features, mechanical objects and retro apparatus, O’Sullivan’s collective works explore mid-century functionalism and vernacular Irish decor. These imagined artefacts confront tensions between past and future and refer to the weight of history and global modernity on defining contemporary Irish identity. Her faux nostalgic narrative addresses modern history in the wake of commodification and commercialism, using retrofuturism as an aesthetic tool to reimagine homogeny and alienation in contemporary Ireland.
Photocredit: Louis Haugh
