(L) MANY SCENTED WREATHS (2023)

-workers jacket pattern on tracing paper, decorators tape, carabiner, violet scent

(R) AN EVENING BOTANIST (2023)

- Belleek vase and flower arrangement; Rose, Lavender and Carnation

Self Determination : A Global Perspective
Irish Museum of Modern Art 2023
(photo: Ros Kavanagh 2023)

These objects reflect on the histories and practices of modernist design and building. The worker’s jacket made in the form of a blueprint is infused with a Sapphist scent, thus re-gendering the traditionally masculine ground of industrial construction. The vase of flowers similarly proposes another space for male companionship; as they wilt, the fragility of these relationships is embodied. These works were made in response to the parallel contexts in the adjacent rooms: the queer architect Eileen Gray, and the hypermasculinity evident in Aleksandr Dozshenko’s film Ivan.