Timeline
Timeline Research for 'Take a Breath' Exhibition
IMMA 2024
For this exhibition, I researched and devised a timeline installation mapping over a century of air pollution history, from early industrial smog to today's digital-age emissions.
The timeline drew on historical events, scientific milestones, environmental disasters and cultural moments to trace this history, covering industrialisation and the environmental destruction it caused, the impact of warfare on ecosystems and air quality, key advances in science and medicine, the emergence of the environmental movement, as well as more recent affairs such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. This historical context gave visitors a grounding alongside the exhibition's broader meditation on breath, situating individual artworks within a longer history of environmental and social change.
Timeline research by Shannon Carroll,
Format design by Oonagh Young
Exhibition curated by Mary Cremin
Take a Breath was a major exhibition at The Irish Museum of Modern Art providing an historical, social, political, and personal examination of breathing; why we breathe, how we breathe and what we breathe. 14 Jun 2024–17 Mar 2025
