Artists Talk with Alice Rekab 5pm Fri 28 March
Opening Reception 6pm Fri 28 March

mythological recovery, and more ambivalently of transition, transformation, repression, and resistance across history. The featured works generate a symbolic lens by which to imagine a clann miotlantach, or ‘mythatlantic family’.

Rekab is uniquely capable of challenging historically prevailing notions of Irishness as associated with whiteness, possessing the capacity to critique the ‘white innocence’ that shapes a collective unconscious which still largely fails to recognise the racial issues permeating social relations. In addition, the artist contributes to a wider recognition of the complexity of identity in Ireland today, using their biography as a signifier of that and platforming it as a useful metaphor through which to think about, and enact, sustainable ways of living with difference in the country.

Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics is an exhibition produced by Sirius Arts Centre and realised in part with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland through a Project Award. The exhibition is curated by Miguel Amado, director, Sirius Arts Centre.

Following the presentation at Sirius Arts Centre, the exhibition is travelling across Ireland to Galway Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery, and Limerick City Gallery of Art, in collaboration with producer Rayne Booth, with funding from the Arts Council of Ireland through the Touring of Work Scheme.

Biography
Alice Rekab lives and works in Dublin. In 2025, they are participating in the 2025 edition of the Liverpool Biennial and are featured in the group show Staying with the Trouble at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Their recent solo shows include Mehrfamilienhaus, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2023) and Family Lines, The Douglas Hyde, Dublin (2022). Their recent commissions include Truth, Flags, Identity, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2020). Their first monograph was published by Distanz in 2023 to accompany the exhibition at Museum Villa Stuck. Their work is in the collections of the Arts Council and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, among others. They are a member of Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin.

Alice Rekab, Scene / Seen III (Through the Window), 2024. Installation view, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh. Co. Cork. Photograph: John Beasely. Courtesy of the artist and Sirius Arts Centre