Aisling O’Beirn | The Belfast Way
Curator: Sergio Edelsztein
March 5, 2005 - May 21, 2005
Interested in urban culture and the way popular knowledge re-creates a city, Aisling O’Beirn builds cardboard models of Belfast’s urban complexes representing the invisible architectures of conflict. Rather than showing walls or clear-cut borders, her models embody signifiers of tension as shaped over the years.
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Two defiant cranes in a shipyard that came to symbolize sectarian employment policies; two ponds in a park, one bordering on a Protestant neighborhood, another – on a Catholic, with a larger pond serving as a buffer zone; a river or a highway interchange that separate (or possibly connect) rival neighborhoods. These models and their explanatory texts attempt to disclose these architectures of conflict as they grow, develop and gain meaning throughout the generations.
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