As an gCeo

This exhibition takes its name from the folklore of Hy-Brasil - the mythical island off the west coast of Ireland, obscured by a veil of fog or ceo. It has been curated, designed and developed by a team of students from UCD Architecture, as part of an initiative supported by the Building Change project.

The work itself was made by architecture students from University College Dublin, University College Cork and University of Limerick who served as invigilators at the 2023 Venice Biennale. During their time in Venice, they became intimately familiar with the Irish Pavilion's exhibition, ‘In Search of Hy-Brasil’, providing visitors with insights into its themes and narratives.Through their engagement with the ‘In Search of Hy-Brasil’ exhibition, these students metaphorically glimpsed Hy-Brasil, seeing through the fog to gain new understandings and insights that were once hidden. The invigilators were invited by the Student Curators to create a piece of work in response to this experience, exploring themes such as cultural memory, myth, tradition, tactility, and dialogue. The title, ‘As an gCeo’, refers to the rediscovery of cultural heritage and collective memory that has been forgotten over time, akin to a mental fog lifting.