At OFFSCREEN Ailbhe Ní Bhriain presents two large-scale Jacquard tapestries, “Interval III” (2023) and “Interval VIII” (2024), woven with wool, cotton, silk and Lurex and part of her ongoing series “The Dream Pool Intervals”. Originating in collage, the tapestries are a composite of fragments, brought together to create a visual world that is at once precise and enigmatic. Both works are underpinned by loose categories of imagery: early photographic portraiture, underground caves and architectural ruins. The scenes of threshold and collapse are inhabited by an unlikely cast of creatures – animals which thread an imagined line between present-day threats of extinction and ancient narratives of the underworld. Ní Bhriain is an Irish artist working with film, computer generated imagery, collage, tapestry, print and installation. Her work is rooted in an exploration of imperial legacy, human displacement and the Anthropocene. These intertwined subjects are approached through an associative use of narrative and a painstakingly crafted visual language that verges on the surreal.

Ní Bhriain has exhibited at Kunsthal Gent, The Kitchen, New York, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Para/Site, Hong Kong, among many others. Her work is held in institutional collections including that of the Dallas Museum of Art, MAC Lyon, Artissima Collection, Lyon, The Arts Council of Ireland, Trinity College, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Crawford Art Gallery, Ulster Museum, and others. Ní Bhriain lives and works in Cork.

Established in Dublin in 1988, Kerlin Gallery has built an international reputation by providing sustained and meaningful representation for leading contemporary Irish and international artists.
For over 35 years, the gallery’s programme has reflected significant trends in international contemporary art with solo shows of Dorothy Cross, Willie Doherty, Liam Gillick, Siobhán Hapaska, Callum Innes, Merlin James, Albert Oehlen, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Sean Scully, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Lawrence Weiner, among others. In recent years, the gallery has introduced a new generation of artists working across diverse media including Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Aleana Egan, Andy Fitz, Sam Keogh, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and Marcel Vidal. The gallery also publishes artists’ catalogues and monographs independently and in association with public institutions.