What’s Left Us Then takes a thoughtful and humorous look at the use of concrete as a building material in rural Ireland where the meeting of the bucolic with the brutalist is often contested. The film engages with the brutal beauty of concrete and the idea that we are all sliding slowly into decay, and the contradictory part that concrete plays in this slide, embodying both ruin and ecological pillage, while also providing us with a resolute and practical protection from the elements.
Yvonne McGuinness received a BFA from Crawford College of Art, Cork in 1997 and an MFA from Royal College of Art, London in 2003. She lives and works in Dublin and has exhibited
and been commissioned in Ireland and internationally.
Commissioned as part of the Engaging with Architecture programme funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
