Multidisciplinary group exhibition officially opened at Luan Gallery
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Carmel Duffy, Manager, Luan Gallery, Day Magee, Aritst, Lynda Mooney, Assistant Manager, Luan Gallery.Image 2 of 4
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Phelim Hoey, Artist, Aoife Banks, Curator, Luan Gallery.Image 4 of 4
Artist Tara Carroll standing in front of their workAffective Forms, a new exhibition at Athlone’s Luan Gallery, was officially opened on Friday last, February 13, with a guest address by Dr Tina Kinsella, Head of Research at IADT, as well as a performance by exhibiting artist Day Magee.
The group exhibition features work by Tara Carroll, Sian Costello, Phelim Hoey, Áine O'Hara, Day Magee, and Rajinder Singh.
Affective Forms is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that explores how the human body is represented in contemporary Irish art through painting, photography, sculpture, performance, and film.
The exhibition highlights the experiences of bodies often overlooked or marginalised in mainstream culture, presenting works that understand the body not as an isolated or idealised figure, but as a sensing, relational, and meaning-making presence. It also looks at how bodies connect emotionally and physically with the spaces and environments around them.
For millennia, artists have studied the human figure, from prehistoric markings on stone to classical figurative painting, but these traditional depictions often separate the body from the social, political, medical, and material conditions that shape it. This exhibition reflects a contemporary approach, viewing the body as a site of experience that senses, processes, and communicates. The works explore how bodies move through the world and interact with others, showing how identity, desire, disability, and care are lived and expressed through physical presence.
The exhibition will run until April 22.