Romantic Ireland, Eimear Walshe

I saw it go up as a child/ Four corners hide a lucky coin

A publication of stills and an extract of the libretto from ROMANTIC IRELAND (2024) Eimear Walshe’s pavilion for Ireland at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Set on the site of an unfinished earth build, the video stages soapy, dramatic encounters between character archetypes from the 19th–21st centuries. These figures occupy an abstracted ruin, a site under simultaneous construction and demolition.

Published on the occasion of Eimear Walshe representing Ireland at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, April 2024. Edited by Niamh Moriarty. Designed by Alex Synge

Published by Project Press
Softcover
180 pages
92 mm x 172 mm