Longshot mit Alice Rekab: Legacy Materials

Alice Rekab presents a performance with objects exploring, amongst other things, the lives of their maternal and paternal grandmothers, One Irish and one Sierra Leonean. The text is formed of sections of song, hearsay, anecdote, narrative fiction and dream sequences. The artist seeks to reflect on how we navigate the stories we are told about who we are, where we come from and where we belong.

Following this performance Alice will speak on their work and research methods.

Alice Rekab’s practice is concerned with expressions and iterations of complex cultural and personal narratives. Alice Rekab takes their own mixed-race Irish identity as a starting point from which to explore experiences of race, place and belonging. Over the last ten years Rekab’s practice has centred around collaboration and interdisciplinary work from which they produce film, performance, image and sculpture, creating new intersectional narratives and objects for exhibition.

Recent Projects include; Mehrfamilienhaus, Museum VILLA STUCK , Munich (2023); FAMILY LINES Project, Douglas Hyde Gallery(2022); Mountain Language, Galway Arts Centre(2022) Concealed in the half-light, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast (2021), Truth, Flags, Identity, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios // Culture Night Dublin (2020) The Nomoli/Father talk, VERY Project Space, Berlin (2019) and The Open Object, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2018).

Rekab completed a PhD in Art at Kingston School of Art London in 2018 and an MA at Goldsmiths College London in 2010. Their work is in the collections of Trinity College Dublin, The Cathal Ryan Trust, The Irish Museum of Modern Art and The Arts Council of Ireland. Rekab is a recipient of the Visual Arts Project Award 2021 and the Visual Arts Bursary Award 2019-23.

Alice Rekab identifies as non-binary and neurodivergent. For further information see here.