No Name, Diana Bamimeke

One of my favourites in the show was a narrow portrait of a woman in a black shawl, standing barefoot in misty, stark countryside. She held a sling of crops or flowers to her chest, the cargo her attention temporarily drifted from as her gaze lifted up and out of the canvas. Two worlds cohabited here: this woman’s interior world—taken up with contemplation of a thing beyond the viewer’s sight—and the austere landscape that she presumably worked. The mystery of the scene gave me room to speculate about the life she led, the encounters she had…

Using personal essay, poetry and embodied encounters with the Complex’s visual arts programming, Diana Bamimeke takes the reader on an imaginative and deeply felt journey through their experience as Writer-in-Residence at the gallery. Its characters, who figure brightly in these three texts, include elderly artists, collectors of cans & bottles and disappearing tourists, and we are invited to get curious about the insides of their (real or imagined) heads.

No Name (2026) is a 10-page limited-run independent publication by writer and artist Diana Bamimeke, published by Mirror Lamp Press and riso printed by Way Bad Press. It is the outcome of their work during the 2025 Writer-in-Residence Programme, which was jointly established by Mirror Lamp Press & the Complex and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Published by Mirror Lamp Press & The Complex
Softcover
10 pages
131 x 195 m