Ambivalence Review – Irish Times

Ambivalence - Silent Noise (locusts, paper, glue, matt varnish), 23 x 23 x 23cm
Silent Noise (locusts, paper, glue, matt varnish), 23 x 23 x 23cm

Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once said that he’d rather feel slightly uneasy than content. In her compelling, ever-changing work, Cléa van der Grijn makes something worthwhile out of just such a feeling. AMBIVALENCE consists of a series of casts taken from personal objects, beautiful things offering tender mediations on memory, life, death and loss, but edgy and distinctly unsentimental.