Horizon
Ag Bun na Spéire

The Goods Shed, restored historic railway building, MacDonagh Junction
Emerging Curator Residency, Kilkenny Arts Office, May 2023

Immersive multimedia installation by visual artist Catherine McDonald presenting an imaginary landscape. Curated by Shannon Carroll.

Blending fact with fiction, the exhibition speculates upon human ideologies of life on alternate planets. The site combines natural and synthetic materials, evoking a world which appears both old and new; familiar and unfamiliar. 

A film projection follows the flowing waters of the River Nore. Islands of orange sand stretch across the floor. Small sculptures, made from clay collected along the eroding cliffs of the Irish coast, create a collection of strange shapes and figures. Live plants grow and evolve within the space, with an interconnected series of tanks and vessels incubating and generating new growth. Soft yellow light saturates the room, shifting the space from the Earthly to the otherworldly…

Exhibition Photography by Maria Maarjberg