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- Saoirse Grogan Ryan
Saoirse
Grogan Ryan
These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruins
Taken from TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, ‘ ‘ is an attempt to sustain the ‘fragments’ that remain, preserving them against further decay.
Saoirse Grogan’s multidisciplinary practice concerns the nature of assemblage, shifting the narrative of everyday, domestic found objects. These remnants could be argued for possessing a seemingly arbitrary sentimentality, that which is personal to her.
Grogan curates archival film photographs and the residuals from her paternal family past, as well as concerning the piece with materiality reminiscent of her father and grandfather’s work in stone masonry & construction.
A desire to understand the nuances of familial dynamics through her own exploration of their materials is at the forefront of her practice.
Themes suggest a reflection on memory, family, catharsis, microhistory, domesticity, postcolonialism & language…
lánchinnte
á , meaning ‘full of certainty’ considers the navigation of familial dynamics, sexual identity, and relationship with bilingualism within the Irish context.
Reflecting upon the distant remembrance of vulnerable dialogues and conversations between family members, the piece utilises the materiality of roofing slate to immortalise fickle memories and conversations long past and almost forgotten..
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