Dates: 8th July 2023 – 31st August 2023

Gallery: Great Patrick Street

Flight from the City | And In the Silence Came… | Heart of a Tree

A film trilogy curated by Peter Richards and Mary Stevens.  

Seminal Irish artist Clare Langan is an acclaimed film maker who was exhibiting in Belfast for the first time in this very special exhibition screening at Golden Thread Gallery.

Langan is particularly interested in the fragility of mankind and our impact on the world around us in her atmospheric films. The work evokes feelings of nostalgia, loss, transformation and isolation. Climate catastrophe frequently repeats throughout her films, acting as a transformative event, as she imagines a world without humans, yet still bearing evidence of human existence.

About the Artist

Langan studied fine art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She represented Ireland at the São Paulo Biennale in 2002. In 2003 Langan presented her ambitious A Film Trilogy at MoMA, New York and the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. In 2019 she became a member of Aosdána, an Irish association of prestigious artists created in 1981. Most recently, a still from her film The Heart of A Tree won The Progressive Vision Curtin O’Donoghue Photography Prize as selected by The RHA Annual Exhibition 2022.

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