Aoife Ní Dhuinn
Aoife Ní Dhuinn (Aoife Dunne) is a Dublin-based visual artist, who graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a First-Class BFA degree in Fine Art Media. Ní Dhuinn completed her graduate show project in June 2023 and was awarded the Fire Station Artist Studios Sculpture Graduate Award 2023 and The Ormond Art Studios Graduate Residency 2023. Aoife’s practice explores contemporary digital media, with a focus on the absurd within the context of the current digital age. Ní Dhuinn’s work recontextualises digital ephemera as artefact-like objects, playing with the interaction between image, sculpture, and found materials. Drawn to the physical antithesis of virtual spaces, Ní Dhuinn’s work materialises through natural stone, wood, and cast concrete. These particular works explore the human need to leave traces in an act of ‘I was here ’-ness. Through material explorations into the mundaneness of the every day, this body of work seeks to examine how and why we monumentalise these moments. Thinking about the artefact and precious objects, Ní Dhuinn’s work draws connections between various acts of mark-making and trace-laying from a post-internet perspective.
My Soul Cannot Be Contained by This Body stands as a central piece within this body of work. 73 individually cast concrete tablets display laser-engraved remnants of Ní Dhuinn’s Twitter archive, serving as a commentary on the mundane yet persistent nature of online expression. The work invites reflection on the paradox of our digital behaviour, where we broadcast our lives to an audience that may or may not be listening, shouting into the void in search of significance. Within the context of Take Care to Leave a Trace, this work serves as an exploration of the intricate connections between the self and digital environments. As part of a collective examination of invisible exchanges, Ní Dhuinn reflects on the ways in which digital culture could be changing the impermanence of our physical presence. Ní Dhuinn invites viewers to contemplate the intersection of the virtual and physical realms, the transient nature of existence, and the enduring quest for meaning.
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