Cinders of the Wreck - VISUAL

VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art &
The George Bernard Shaw Theatre

Cinders of the Wreck

Dominique White

8 February - 18 May 2025

11am - 5.30pm Tues - Sat, 2pm - 5pm Sun

Admission: Free

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Les Cendres du Naufrage (2022). Courtesy of Veda Firenze and the artist. Photo by Aurélien Mole

VISUAL is pleased to present Cinders of the Wreck, the first exhibition in Ireland by Dominique White. VISUAL's Main Gallery hosts a large-scale installation evoking shipwrecks through materials associated with oceangoing. These monumental sculptures consider the histories of piracy, whale hunting and afro futures through the myth of the Hydra.

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Dominique White (b. UK) mostly lives in Marseille (FR) and Essex (GB) and works nomadically. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: Deadweight at Whitechapel Gallery (GB) (2024), Destruction of Order at veda (IT) (2024 and Dominique White and Alberta Whittle: Sargasso Sea at ICA Philadelphia (US) (2024).

Recent group exhibitions include: La Haute Note Jaune at Fondation Vincent van Gogh (FR) (2024-5), AMONG THE INVISIBLE JOINS: Works from the Enea Righi Collection at Museion (IT) (2024-5) and Phantom Sculpture at Warwick Arts Centre (GB) (2023-4).

White was the winner of the 9th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (GB/IT) (2022- 2024) and CURA magazine has chosen her as one of the most significant artists of the current generation. She was also awarded the Foundwork Artist Prize at the beginning of 2023 and was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (CL), Triangle France – Astérides (FR) and La Becque (CH) in 2020 and 2021.