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Helena Walsh


Tricolour

 

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Tricolour examines the power struggles of the female body alongside Ireland’s battle for political freedom. In this performance an intense montage of historic and contemporary media imagery highlight Ireland as a political canvas as the artist’s actions display the female body as a site of systematic ideological regulation. Tricolour intertwines the personal with the political as the artist’s uneasy account of her own Irishness is juxtaposed with the dedicated militancy of Ireland's political heroines. Further juxtapositions find the increasingly multicultural nature of Irish society placed alongside nationalistic propaganda, hierarchal statues alongside unborn potential, heroism beside terrorism, the printing press beside a television. Across such an explosive mish-mash of visual imagery and narratives the links and contradictions between cultural identity and individual identity become apparent.