VASSALDOMS UNITED

VASSALDOMS UNITED was Eimear Walshe’s first solo exhibition in Ireland following their national representation at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. Born in Longford in 1992, Walshe’s work has long focused on representations of Ireland, and the local and international politics at play behind those representations, including questions of external optics and internal incoherencies.

The artworks in VASSALDOMS UNITED were concerned with places where the historic legacies and contemporary presence of empire are palpable – through law, bureaucracy, infrastructure, land, and language. It comprises of works that were newly commissioned by Luan Gallery in video, sculpture, sound, and vinyl installation. 

The video for FREE STATE PANGS (2025) is an absurd and unfurling fable of administrative paper chase through state funding, the courts, and the health system. AIRE (2025) wrapped Luan Gallery’s Shannon-facing River Gallery in an image of Shannon Airport – a landscape through which Ireland is wedded to the US Military’s wars of aggression, while Study for the Athlone to Derry train (Queen Medb Line) (2025) outlined the artist’s fantasy of a high-speed local service train between Connaught and Ulster. 

This exhibition received funding from the Arts Council, with works commissioned by Luan Gallery and supported by the Arts Council Project Award.