For the Liverpool Biennial 2025, Alice Rekab will present new and existing work alongside a performance with objects exploring, amongst other things, the lives of their maternal and paternal grandmothers: one Irish and one Sierra Leonean. The text is formed of sections of song, hearsay, anecdote, narrative fiction and dream sequences. The artist seeks to reflect on how we navigate the stories we are told about who we are, where we come from and where we belong. To accompany this exhibition Alice will develop a public engagement programme for Schools in Liverpool in collaboration with Éireann and I Archive.
The next edition of Liverpool Biennial will take place from 7 June - 14 September 2025.
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Legacy Materials—Liverpool Biennial 2025
Mythlantics, SIRIUS Arts Centre, (2024 - 2026)
Mythlantics' examines legacies of migration and strategies of survival within the family unit with a focus on engagement with Black and Mixed-Race culture in Ireland. Building on ideas and collaborations established in the 'Family Lines Project' at Douglas Hyde Gallery (2021-22) and 'Mehrfamilienhaus' at Museum Villa Stuck in Munich (2023), this new project will partner with Sirius Arts Centre (aka SIRIUS) in Cobh, Co. Cork to engage local and global familial histories of immigration, colonisation, fragmentation and recovery in an Atlantic context. Here the project will establish a decentralisatised decentralised, networked, creative space, presenting new and recently commissioned work through exhibition, workshops, screenings and a residency.
The exhibition will take place 23 November -8th of March 2025.
An opening will occur on Saturday, 23 November, at 2pm, with a conversation between the artist and curator Marie-Anne McQuay, from the Liverpool Biennial. Following this presentation, it tours to Galway Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery and Limerick City Gallery of Art, in collaboration with producer Rayne Booth.
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