
Announcing the first update from the Mirror Lamp Press X The Complex writers-in-residence programme!
Tara McGinn's (they/them) response to Trails of Uncertainty - Mark Buckeridge and Vivienne Dick, is now live, and available to be read or listened to here.
Recorded in The Cooler, a soundproof room at The Complex, listening to Tara read their own response lends added meaning and power to their insightful words.

The MLP X The Complex programme is designed to help early-career visual arts writers based in Ireland develop their practice by inviting them to produce up to five new critical responses to the Exhibitions and Events programme at The Complex. The Complex looks forward to hearing more from Tara as their residency progresses.

Tara McGinn (they/she) is a visual artist with an interdisciplinary practice combining sculptural (re)productions, image-based assemblage and reflex/ct/ive writing. They excavate the language of sentimentality by perverting the syntaxes of domestic spaces, to translate subjects of withheld trauma, falsified memory, and queered identity.
Their work has developed into a wider dialogue on mobilising the discomfort of the uncanny and critiquing the aesthetics of the familiar by exposing an emotional interior juxtaposed with decorative motifs and objects. Through their writing, the textures and surfaces of the works expand to become tactile and tangible fictions or speculative sculptures that communicate cultural practices and political narratives around the erotics of class, domesticity, bodily labour, and time, which they hope will grow into a performative practice in the future.
Photos by Kate Bowe O'Brien.