Wex-Art Festival
invites you to the launch of
Rooted Utopias: our Future at Play
A group exhibition featuring work by
Paul Carter, Denise Kehoe, Jo Kimmins, Mairead Holohan, Aiseling Noone,
Seamus O’Brien, Liam O’Rourke, and Marika Sheridan.
Curated by Karla Sánchez Zepeda
on Saturday 12th October at 6pm
at Westgate Heritage Centre, Westgate, Y35X2DK
The yearly Wex-Art Exhibition is aimed at artists working in the South East region with a particular focus on County Wexford. Its intention is to give artists a platform to showcase their work during the prestigious Wexford Opera Festival.
In “Rooted Utopias: our Future at Play” guest curator Karla Sánchez wished to listen to what the eight selected artists have to say about the re-telling of stories that incorporate other beings, both human and more-than-human, as well as the re-imagining of structures and modes of living and doing, all grounded in nature.
Several common threads emerged- from an interest, deep curiosity and almost obsession with place, natural environments in particular, to personal and social connections and re-connections, experimentation and play.
Karla Sánchez Zepeda is an art historian, curator, and cultural producer. She has participated in numerous educational, research and curatorial projects in Ireland. Her research interests are the environment, art education, the role of art in contemporary societies, interdisciplinary collaborative practices, and the construction of the concept of the rural. Karla, who is also a farmer (Regenerative Agriculture), is the founder of Blackbird Cultúr-Lab, an experimental laboratory of culture that aims to generate spaces for holistic thinking where agriculture, the arts and other disciplines meet.
Wex-Art is supported by the Arts Council’s Festival Investment Scheme, Wexford County Council’s Arts Office and Wexford Arts Centre.
