Curated by Margarita Cappock
Siobhan McDonald’s multifaceted project explores Dublin's deep history as a mutable landscape shaped by water, cosmology, and human intervention. Through film, sound, painting, and sculpture, the installation investigates how the city’s shifting ground holds memory and resilience. PASSAGE traces the interdependence of human and more-than-human worlds, revealing the city as a living organism — breathing, eroding, reforming. By weaving together soundscapes, imagery, and environmental research, McDonald offers a meditation on place and change — a reminder that the boundaries between solid and fluid, human and elemental, are always in motion. The work calls to mind ancient myths surrounding the rivers and seas as well their raw and fragile beauty.