Pallas Projects/Studios are pleased to present Camilla Hanney—Lament, the third exhibition of our 2022 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Lament explores the tradition of Irish ‘keening’ and its deep-rooted relationship with catharsis, loss and care.

Keening was a mourning ritual performed at wakes by three or more women who would use a combination of chanting, rocking, clapping, singing and crying as a cathartic expression of grief. The keeners were said to have cared for the souls of the departed to ensure they were guided safely away from the bodies of the deceased.

Camilla Hanney (b. 1992) is a visual artist and graduate of Goldsmiths University Masters of Fine Art programme (2017-2019) and also Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Visual Arts Practice 2010-2015). Working through ceramics, sculpture and installation Camilla’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal, often referencing the body in both humorous and challenging ways. By subverting traditional, genteel crafts she attempts to transgress and contemplate conventional modes of femininity, deconstructing archaic identities and rebuilding new figures from detritus of the past. By materialising the familiar in an unfamiliar context her work stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.

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