A New Bridge
9.30am to 5.30pm Mon-Fri
10am to 1pm Saturday
**Please Note: This event has been postponed until further notice.**
bridge: anything that joins or connects two separate things or parts of something, or that connects across a gap
A collection of images and digital stories exploring experiences of migration to Ireland and the process of seeking asylum. All the work was created as part of a collaborative project in Newbridge over a period of four months.
Identity is always changing, affected by new experiences, new connections, loss and hope. It is through bridging the cracks that we can begin to move forward and create a better life, finding new places and ways of being, while acknowledging our roots and past experiences.
The images, words and stories in this exhibition are an acknowledgement of the attempt to bridge the cracks, both within the self and between the self and others, between people and places, between communities, between understandings, between loss and hope. Lodged in the work is an inherent awareness of both instability and hope in changing circumstances.
The work is the result of a four-month collaboration between visual ethnographer Zoë O’Reilly and a group of individuals from different corners of the world, living in Newbridge and seeking asylum in Ireland.
We are fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks (Husvedt)
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