Siobhàn Hapaska

Born in 1963 in Belfast, she lives in London.

A participant in Dokumenta X in Kassel and a representative of Ireland in 2001 at the Venice Biennial, Siobhàn Hapaska has never before had her work shown in France. Hapaska's art seems to emerge from nowhere, or perhaps from a more or less distant future. As a result, the motifs of deracination and displacement into another formal and mental dimension which she examines in her works have a fundamentally exogenous character. Her sculptures and installations are full of spotless mutant forms in opalescent fibreglass. Sound and images often accompany these hybrid elements, somewhere between pieces of land and vehicles, which suggest phantasmagorical islands emerging from the impatient desire for an unspecified elsewhere.

Hapaska exhibits in les Abattoirs – Musée Frac Occitanie several recent creations which play with the opposition between the natural, the real, and the imitation.