ORLA BARRY – BREAKING RAINBOWS

In cooperation with Kaaitheater and Performatik, Orla Barry presents in Argos the premiere of the performance Breaking Rainbows and the exhibition of the same name. Orla Barry (b. 1969, Wexford) is both visual artist and shepherdess. After living in Brussels for 16 years, she now runs a farm in the Irish countryside. In her artistic practice she looks for a durable way to link life and art, which has resulted in a particularly varied oeuvre: performances, video, texts, sound and photo installations. In Breaking Rainbows the artist links 300 kg of wool—her own one year production—to the performers Einat Tuchman and Derrick Devine, creating an interaction. The work exposes our problematic relation to nature. The artist punctuates both her live performance and her video installation with coincidences, language games and mild humour, but above all she makes us feel very strongly an element of desperation with regard to the direction the world is heading today. Breaking Rainbows stands for a shattered experience in which positions, perspectives and storylines intermingle. From experiences at a sheep farm to revelations about the functioning of our brain. From pastoral song contests in ancient Greece to ecological issues in 2017.