Flashes of Light, Echoes of Drumbeats


︎ Response to Clíodhna Timoney’s exhibition Flashes of Light at VISUAL Carlow
︎ December 2022

A text reflecting on various urban and rural geographies, electrification, and the liberatory potential of rave culture. It takes the form of a series of letters to the late writer Mark Fisher, whose text ’Baroque Sunbursts’ was a reference point for Timoney‘s exhibition

︎ visualcarlow.ie

Paper Visual Art reviews


︎ Reviews
︎ 2022–ongoing

︎ Review of Alice Rekab, Family Lines at Douglas Hyde Gallery (online)

︎ Review of Laurent Gault Galalith, curated by Katherine Murphy, at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios (print, Vol. 14)

︎ papervisualart.com

Mirror Lamp Press No4: Fetish


︎ Essay
︎ December 2021

‘High-Temperature Visionary
Obsessions: Towards an Aesthetic Theory of Fetishism’ – an essay asking whether fetishism might present a valid aesthetic theory (via Bataille, Sontag and Sunset Boulevard), published by Mirror Lamp Press

︎ mirrorlamppress.com

New Contemporaries 2021: Online Platform


︎ Artist Q&A
︎ September 2021

I was invited to ask six New Contemporaries artists a question about their practice for the 2021 Online Platform. Links to each artist’s page below:
︎: rosa.vertov@protonmail.com