BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:146@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin;VALUE=DATE:20250726 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin;VALUE=DATE:20250824 DTSTAMP:20250808T090725Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/to-be-spat-back-out-group-exhibition-a t-goma-waterford SUMMARY:To be spat back out | Group Exhibition at GOMA Waterford DESCRIPTION:To be spat back out\n\nBassam Issa Al-Sabah\, Jennifer Mehigan and Caoimhín Gaffney\n\nOfficially launch at GOMA Waterford on Saturday 2 6 July\, 4–6pm. All are welcome to attend.\n\nTo be spat back out is a t hree-person exhibition by Bassam Issa Al-Sabah\, Jennifer Mehigan and Caoi mhín Gaffney\, where individual and collaborative practices overlap and i nteract across world building (fiction and CGI)\, world destroying (climat e change) and worlds colliding (queer networks\, and traumatic experiences that interrupt the present as spectres). Emerging out of their conversati ons and exchange of skills across the various technologies in their work\, the images\, objects\, and animations they produce are often oriented tow ards the presentation of climate change in the media\, with each artist ex ploring how ideas of ‘nature’ can be re-examined from a postcolonial a nd queer perspective.\n\nTo be spat back out revels in waste and excess\, examining the expressions of excessive emotions as a queer strategy of res istance. Through storytelling\, images and texts\, reality bends to a brea king point\; mirroring how trauma distorts\, remakes and retells lived exp erience in its own image. The legacy of colonialism is examined as a mater ial component of the climate crisis\, and how the binary dynamics of indoo r/outdoor and private/public spaces fail to imagine what is possible in th e present.\n\nSituated in relation to their practices\, the exhibition emp loys non-linear storytelling\, poetry\, surreality\, virtual reality\, and daydreaming\, growing into a new unpredictable formation as a collective body of work.\n\nThe exhibition will run from Saturday 26 July – Saturda y 23 August 2025.\n\nGOMA Gallery is open Tuesday–Saturday\, 11am–5pm. Free entry\, all welcome.\n\n***\n\nBiographies\n\nBassam Issa Al-Sabah i s a visual artist working with digital animation\, painting\, sculpture an d textiles. often building installations that interrogate the intersection of fantasy and trauma\, employing speculative worlds as a lens through wh ich to explore the mechanisms of memory and identity formation. Frequently drawing on the visual lexicon of video games\, anime\, and popular cultur e\, constructing alternative realities that function as both a means of es cape and critical commentary.\n\nBassam Issa Al-Sabah works across digital animation\, painting\, sculpture\, and textiles. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at FACT (2025) Transmediale (2024) The DHG (2022-24) S olstice Arts Centre (2019)\, the LAB (2018) and with the Glucksman as an o ffsite installation (2021). Group exhibitions include Golden Thread Galler y (2020)\, the Dock (2021)\, Queer Embodiment and Social Fabric at IMMA (2 021-2022) and Futures at the RHA (2018). His work has also been shown inte rnationally\, including solo exhibitions at Gasworks (London\, 2021) and t he De La Warr Pavillion (UK\, 2022)\, and group exhibitions and screenings at Transmediale (Berlin\, 2021)\, EX-IS (South Korea\, 2021)\, Jeu de Pau me (Paris\, 2021) and the Barbican (London\, 2022).\n\nCaoimhín Gaffney i s an artist\, filmmaker and writer\, whose work has been shown in exhibiti ons and film festivals internationally. Gaffney’s practice comprises of film\, analogue photography\, writing and installation to allow for a cros s-pollination of ideas between the works. Solo exhibitions include the Cra wford Art Gallery\, Block 336 in London\, Contemporary Art Institute (CAI0 2) in Sapporo\, and a touring exhibition of new work from the Butler Galle ry to the Highlanes Gallery and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre during 2024- 2025. Their films have screened at FACT\, Cork Film Festival\, Korean Quee r Film Festival\, the European Media Arts Festival and the London Short Fi lm Festival (receiving the Little White Lies award).\n\nGaffney graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA Photography and Moving Image with dis tinction in 2011 and received their PhD from Ulster University’s School of Arts\, Humanities &\; Social Sciences in 2022. In 2014\, they were a n UNESCO-Aschberg laureate artist-in-residence at the National Museum of M odern and Contemporary Art’s Changdong residency in South Korea\, and in 2015 received a Sky Arts scholarship. Their work is featured in the colle ctions of the Arts Council\, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Crawfo rd Art Gallery.\n\nJennifer Mehigan\nUsing paint\, inkjet\, neural network s\, her garden and her phone\, Jennifer Mehigan’s prints and paintings b lend new and old methods of making and processing the world – a relation ship the artist views as a ‘strained mother-daughter’ dynamic. Mehigan ’s wider practice also incorporates sculpture\, filmmaking\, perfumery\, writing\, parties\, workshops\, and flower farming\, deploying sensory ex perience to explore the awkwardness of making images as they are overprodu ced and harvested. Her work occupies a space where pop culture\, painterly gestures\, digital materiality\, autobiography\, “public feelings” (a fter Ann Cvetkovich) and self-help literature can interact\, allowing her to investigate\, often through a non-human lens\, how power manifests in t he world.\n\nMehigan’s research focuses largely on closed systems and “defaults\,” beginning with the computer and extending through domesti c and public environments. Through this framework\, she investigates theme s of submission\, withholding\, oversharing\, and the right to remain ille gible—borrowing from GDPR legislation. Her work is particularly informed by omissions and misunderstandings of women’s contributions to horticul ture and agriculture\, examining the tension between excess and absence as it manifests within various enclosures\, namely the field\, the map\, the screen and the picture frame.\n\nPreviously based in Singapore and Belfas t\, she now lives and works in the Slieve Felim mountains in Co. Limerick. \n\nTo be spat back out runs at GOMA Waterford from 26 July – 23 August 2025. All welcome! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /07/listings-exhibition-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Munster LOCATION:GOMA Waterford\, 6 Lombard Street\, Waterford City\, Waterford\, X 91 F2XP\, Ireland GEO:52.259744;-7.105474 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6 Lombard Street\, Waterfor d City\, Waterford\, X91 F2XP\, Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=GOMA Wa terford:geo:52.259744,-7.105474 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR