The Reality Principle (2017)

Curated by Aisling Keavey and Rena Strati

Artists:
Lizzie Masterton
Messua Poulin Wolff
Tarryn Williams

Private View: Mon 16th of October, 6:30 – 8:30pm
Opening times: 17th to 19th of October, 12 – 6pm
Additional events: performance by Lizzie Masterton and reading group led by Aisling Keavey.

The Reality Principle, was a multi-layered group show exhibiting works by artists Lizzie Masterton, Tarryn Williams and Messua Poulin Wolff. Originally a psychoanalytic concept devised by Freud, we re-appropriated this term in order to juxtapose current feminist issues and the woman as an abstract thinker.

At the private view, Masterton performed her piece Viscid Lip Trip; a solo performance art piece, which explores queer BDSM desire and the shadow of trauma through ritual, spoken word and sound. Aisling Keavey also ran a reading group on Saturday, exploring We Should All Be Feminisists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.