Next to None (2021)

A4 Sounds Gallery, October 2021

The “Next to None” solo exhibition was a part of We Only Want the Earth Residency in A4 Sounds Studio. It was a multimedia installation exploring the precarity and emotional experience of renting in Dublin, drawing on my experiences over the past 8 years. I used sound, sculpture and photography to capture quieter moments of frustration, stress and anger living in poorly maintained apartments, and daydreams of a future out of reach.

The stage for this work was a full scale floor plan of an apartment, however only the internal walls were present, and were constructed of cinder blocks stacked on top of each other, while plaster walls and kitchen tiles were hanging from the ceiling, making the walls precarious and unfit for purpose, meanwhile the exterior walls were replaced by a painted line. Five photos of different sizes were projected onto the walls, and a 10 min. long spoken text echoed through the gallery in Danish, describing and acting out the emotions related to renting.