Beautiful Apocalypse is a solo exhibition by artist Miriam de Búrca that combines a range of media to examine colonial and patriarchal legacies. Through drawing, wall paintings, collage and the ancient technique of verre églomisé, de Búrca toys with the vocabulary of colonial aesthetics, using strategies of mimicry and irony as political tools to critique the superiority of ‘high art’.
In a new film installation Suspended Scream, de Búrca collaborates with French Syrian artist Taïm Haimet [Winner of the RDS Visual Arts Awards 2023] to respond to an old tape de Búrca shot in 2005 while in Palestine, to interrogate conflicting issues around inheritance, privilege and negation. By looking through the lens of Western art, de Búrca points to the role that art has played in the legitimisation of colonial projects — and the power it also has to dismantle and decolonise these structures. Curated by Megs Morley.
