Beyond the Sandy Suburbs explores themes of domesticity, paranoia, displacement, power, and the urban environment. The exhibition brings together video installation, sound, construction materials, and discarded mattresses to reflect on the realities of living in Dublin: crowded apartments and houses, short-term leases, the power of landlords, and a city shaped by skips, cranes, and scaffolding. To live in Dublin today is to live precariously and tentatively, within the overlapping conditions of housing crisis and building boom.

The work centres on fictional characters, here taking the form of a non-verbal, animalistic, and hyper-human duo. Rather than engaging with life through memory or dreams, these figures relate directly to the physical world through focused and often enigmatic actions. In the video, comfort is found in repetition — in gestures that may seem senseless to an outsider, yet carry the weight and gravity of ritual for those who perform them.

Text adapted from an essay by Catherine O’Keeffe.