Sian Costello: The Crush
- PS² Project Space, Belfast
- Opening: Thursday 13 March, 6 – 9pm
- Late Night Art: Thursday 3 April, 6 – 9pm
- Closes: Thursday 17 April, 5pm
- Tuesday – Saturday, 12pm – 5pm (except Good Friday, 18 April)
The Crush is a show about obsession. The history of figuration can be seen as the capture, copy, and control of reality through images of women, land, and fruit, leashed down onto the canvas and sealed in varnish.
Rooted in art- historical references, these paintings, drawings, video, and an installation of large-scale camerae obscurae together examine the dual nature of truth-telling and myth-making of figuration, the balance between the desire for likeness and the classical ideal of creating the illusion of space upon a flat surface.
About the artist:
Sian Costello (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Limerick City, Ireland. She uses performative self-portraiture, drawing, and the camera obscura, to re-examine the hidden role of patience in the history of portraiture and figure painting. Her work re-evaluates the largely uncredited position which the artist’s model has played in the history of art, the depiction of women in the western figurative tradition, and the wider ubiquity of the trivialisation of feminine-perceived labour.
