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SIRIUS ARTS PRESENTS: Sarah Long and Elinor O’Donovan

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January 17, 2024

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SIRIUS presents an evening showcasing the work of two Cork City-based artists: Sarah Long and Elinor O’Donovan. The event includes the screening of O’Donovan’s film The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn and Long’s performance W/w. A conversation between the artists and SIRIUS director Miguel Amado follows both presentations.

SIRIUS
Friday, 19 January
8-10pm
Free; no booking required

Elinor O’Donovan, The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn(still), 2023. Courtesy of the artist

Elinor O’Donovan
The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn

Elinor O’Donovan’s practice spans film, sculpture, digital collage, and installation. O’Donovan playfully explores questions about knowledge, memory, and truth, looking at how stories inform worldviews.

The film The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn imagines the character of an omniscient prawn to discuss themes of ecology, ethics and consumption through the lens of the relationship between humans and more-than-human entities.

Sarah Long
W/w

Sarah Long’s practice spans painting, performance and writing. Long examines the influence of Irish history and literature on both our cultural memory and collective perspective of space, with the notion of landscape allowing her to engage with the Mother Ireland figure and reflect on suppressed feminine archetypes.

The performance W/w addresses the position of women in the Irish constitution. The narrative follows Mary, an autofictional character – an aspiring artist and writer – in conflict with the world around her.