Online Artist Talk | BASIC TALK with Laura Ní Fhlaibhín

Event Details

BASIC SPACE is delighted to present Laura Ní Fhlaibhín for our August BASIC TALK – 1pm on Friday the 8th of August 2025 online

Laura Ní Fhlaibhín works with materials related to healing and nourishment, both ecological and autobiographical. Sifting stories, materials and traces associated with site, memory, narratives of care and the casting of spells, she creates complex but pithy material scenarios. Her practice makes space for the more than human within the art-institution setting, white cube spaces becoming incubators for living beings such as earthworms, leopard slugs and willow trees. Working across sculpture, installation, writing and drawing, embodied care is both represented and inscribed in the material and narrative improvisations that are interwoven in her sculptural assemblages. She builds installations that operate as symbiotic ecosystems; sculptural assemblages giving structural and biological support, such as a network of soil pipes filled with worm bedding materials or a medicinal, and warming alcoholic tincture offered to gallery visitors over the course of an exhibition. Her assemblages function as nourishing hosts for growth and invite guardianship from the art-institution hosts. The looming threats of the environmental crisis and biodiversity loss echo through the work, and in her attention towards the material entanglements of our worlds, across species and things, she points to vibrant and nourishing kinships that can emerge from such alliances. The political charge and potential of art making to co-exist as an ecological type of caregiving is a constant motivation.