When We Cease to Understand the World is a group exhibition that takes its cue from the unique setting of Interface Inagh — a studio and residency programme situated in the Inagh Valley, in the heart of Connemara. The site was originally designed to be the biggest and most advanced salmon hatchery in the world, which supplied offshore salmon farmers with smolt via helicopter. The company’s ultimate failure — the factory was built too high above the adjacent lake — represents both the scale of human ambition and its disregard for natural surroundings.
The exhibition brings together the work of seven artists who explore the disconnection between humankind and nature, but also look at the potential of renewal. Through film, painting, sculpture and installation, they invite us to look closely, to look back to old practices, to learn a place and sit within its geology and deep time, and finally to connect with each other and the natural world.
Curated by Marysia Więckiewicz-Carroll.
