There's just two days to go until Waystation, the TU Dublin Graduate Fine Art exhibition opens at The Complex Gallery! Five talented artists have worked alongside Gallery curator Mark O'Gorman to create moments of flux and slippage acted out, documented, and archived within the multiplicities of The Complex Gallery - a space retains pasts from its storied life - from warehouse to gallery to Waystation.
The artists generate portals into possible pasts and speculative futures, inviting viewers to cross thresholds and collaborate in world building.
Today, we're introducing our fifth andd final artist from the group - Kat Lalor!
Kat Lalor is a Queer Visual Artist, using speculative fiction and performative film to explore the multiplicity of Queer intelligibility. Operating from a position of other, Lalor’s work is invested in moments of tension, choice and slippage. Drag is adapted as a methodology of purposeful embodiment, used to interrogate theoretical and personal ponderings of identity. Subversion, absurdity and humor explore the fragility of narrative and knowledge production, putting pressure on dominant ideals and evoking intimacy with a Queer experience.
Lalor graduated with a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from TU Dublin in 2022. They were a recipient of the Fire Station Artists’ Studios Digital Media Graduate Award (2022), and an Arts Council Agility Award (2022). Their work has since been exhibited in the RDS Visual Arts Awards (2022), and The RHA Annual (2023).
Waystation will be at The Complex Gallery on Arran Street East from 26 October - 2 November with a preview on Friday, 25 October 6-8 pm.
The exhibition is kindly sponsored by Whiplash Beer, who will provide refreshments on opening night and The Complex Bar will be open from 8pm for everyone to enjoy drinks and chat about the show.