Border/River/Mover/Breather (2024) is the title of two simultaneous exhibitions, implemented during my stay in Dublin, Ireland from May 1-11th. Her visit was a joint effort by the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and University College Dublin (UCD). 

Images above from UCD

Nicole Antebi in collaboration with Éireann Lorsung 

These two text pieces come from passages extracted from James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and the Spanish translation thereof (by Pablo Ingberg) and use lo-fi materials such as plant matter, acetate, paper, chalk, text, light, institutional constraints, and use of a color copy machine. The text plays with the “lag” of translation, offsetting of “sides,” plus the time of animation. 

Images above from NCAD

Combining driftwood sourced from Dublin Bay and dimensional text and drawings, Antebi installed the works on the second floor of the Harry Clarke building visible from both sides of the window and multiple vantage points. This body of work furthers her ongoing research on how power upheld in colonial treaties have shaped language, landscape, and friendship in contested boundary waters.