Screendance presents one expansive exhibition in Limerick
THE LIGHT Moves Festival exhibition Screendance will continue throughout January.
The works on display, which have been drawing the crowds and fantastic feedback, will be on display until Sunday, January 28 at Limerick City Gallery.
The exhibition includes seven compelling and thought-provoking installations by prominent artists in the fields of dance, visual art, and film.
This is the festival’s fourth exhibition of screendance works at the gallery, and is the most expansive one yet.
Among the Irish works on display at the gallery is Somewhere in the Body, a film installation by choreographer and filmmaker Áine Stapleton, centred on Lucia Joyce - a talented visual artist, musician and dancer and daughter of the famous Irish writer James Joyce.
The work examines where Lucia appears in various guises in her father’s book Finnegans Wake.
From an international perspective, Swinguerra by Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca is a two-channel video installation that was commissioned for the Brazilian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
The work follows the intense routine of rehearsals performing rhythms.
Orchard Portraits by internationally-renowned choreographer and filmmaker Rosemary Lee with Roswitha Chesher is a stunning seven screen film installation presented on easels and inspired by and shot in a historic wild orchard.
Five senior performers are each captured in a meditative and elegant duet with an ageing tree whilst in contrast 60 school children burst through the orchard in moments of joy and discovery.
Other featured works and artists include Everything was Singing by Robin Parmar, Progression (freestyle) by Anna McDonald, This Endless Sea by Chloë Smith and Lucy Cash, and Dance and Eye by Oguri, Andrew Macpherson, Richard Nielsen, Atiba Jefferson, Ricardo Vidana, Roxanne Steinberg, Tali Maranges and Morleigh Steinberg.
Open from 10am to 5pm, from Monday to Saturday, and from 12 to 5pm on Sunday. For more details, visit https://lightmoves.ie/