Sirius Arts Centre presents 'Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythatlantics '
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Sirius Arts Centre presents 'Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythatlantics '
Alice Rekab, Scene/Seen III (Through the Window) (detail), 2024. Vinyl on wall, dimensions variable. Commissioned by Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Courtesy of the artist.



COBH.- Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland, presents an exhibition by the Irish Sierra Leonean artist Alice Rekab. Clann Miotlantach / Mythatlantics features commissioned, newly made works engaging with the gallery’s location in Cork Harbor along with a comprehensive selection of works previously exhibited at The Douglas Hyde, Dublin, in 2022, and the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, in 2023. The exhibition is a special opportunity to survey Rekab’s practice.

Rekab uses their identity as a starting point to examine the intersection of personal and shared historical and cultural narratives. They trace fragments of their mixed-race experience through body and mind, geographies and politics. They address themes of familial and artistic connections, migration, and sense of place and belonging.

Rekab makes sculptures, expanded paintings, digital collages, and films that are composite interactions with subject matter, technologies, imageries, and storytelling. They call upon “poor” techniques and materials—craft, vernacular iconography, reclaimed utilitarian articles, and symbolism—for their references and manifestations.

Rekab researches and operates through the framework of the family unit. They revisit and reimagine archival items—photographs, objects—found in their own holdings, and combine them with memories and oral accounts, all derived from their encounters with Irish and West African traditions, knowledges, spirituality, and materiality.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythatlantics showcases materials such as clay, colored mirrors, and salvaged wood and utensils, blended with representations of Rekab’s family members, African nomoli figurines, snakes, crocodiles, sky, land, water, and pieces of furniture, among others. These elements consider the Atlantic Ocean as a diasporic terrain, fluid and turbulent, that forged Black and Irish stories of mythological recovery, and more ambivalently of transition, transformation, repression, and resistance across history.

Rekab is uniquely capable of challenging historically prevailing notions of Irishness as associated with whiteness, possessing the capacity to critique the “white innocence” that shapes a collective unconscious which still largely fails to recognize the racial issues permeating social relations. In addition, the artist contributes to a wider recognition of the complexity of identity in Ireland today, using their biography as a signifier of that and platforming it as a useful metaphor through which to think about, and enact, sustainable ways of living with difference in the country.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythatlantics is produced by Sirius Arts Centre and realized in part with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland through a Project Award. Following the presentation at Sirius Arts Centre, the exhibition will travel across Ireland to Galway Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery, and Limerick City Gallery of Art, in collaboration with producer Rayne Booth, with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland through the Touring of Work Scheme.

Clann Miotlantach / Mythatlantics is curated by Miguel Amado, director, Sirius Arts Centre.

Alice Rekab lives and works in Dublin. They will participate in the 2025 edition of the Liverpool Biennial. Recent solo shows include Mehrfamilienhaus, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2023) and Family Lines, The Douglas Hyde, Dublin (2022). Recent commissions include Truth, Flags, Identity, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2020). Their first monograph was published by Distanz in 2023 to accompany the exhibition at Museum Villa Stuck. Their work is in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, among others.










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