Reconstructing Memory

2016

Solo Show, Film
Reconstructing Memory - lace dress

Film Stills

Studio Shots

Offerendos

Installation Shots

Angels Graves

Photography – Lambda Prints with Acrylic

Paintings

Publication

Essays and Reviews

Author: Megan Johnston

Reconstructing Memory Publication

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. Dr Oliver Sacks, Scientist and Writer The notion that we see with the brain, activating perception and memory, serves as a useful point of departure in the work by Clea…

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Author: Rebecca Kennedy

The Model

Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn has spent nearly a decade meditating on our society’s response to death and loss. From 2008’s Momentos to her new show, Reconstructing Memory, in Sligo’s The Model, the artist has harbored a fixation with death and loss – a fixation that has nourished her creative process. Reconstructing Memory is…

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Circa Magazine

Venturing into ‘Reconstructing Memory’, a multi-media exhibition featuring large-scale paintings, photography, installations, artifacts and sculptures at The Model, Sligo, is a truly subversive experience. The exhibition is the creation of Cléa van der Grijn, an Irish artist who wishes to challenge our perceptions of death, grief, ritual and memory. This six-part show was designed to engage…

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Author: Cristin Leach

The Sunday Times

In Mexico, the date of birth is marked on the graves of children, but not the date they died. The feelings evoked by this poignant fact, and an understanding of the cultural motivations behind it, are amongst the most evocative takeaways from artist Clea van der Grijns Reconstructing memory show at Limerick City Gallery. This…

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Author: Dr Michael Birchall

Publication

Within the canon of western art, artists are often asked to perform civic duties, by acting as ethnographers or observers of specific moments. In considering the relationship between Mexican death traditions and the western idea of mourning, burial and commemoration there are stark differences. This essay will consider Clea van der Grijin’s practice in the…

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Author: Catherine Marshall

Publication

Film, painting and installation work by Cléa van der Grijn, 2016. In Cléa van der Grijn’s short film ‘Re-constructing Memory’, a child, wanders along a shadowy road at evening, into a graveyard, where she stops at a grave and picks up the toys she finds there. Given all that we now know about the things…

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Author: Editor

The Guardian

Cléa van der Grijn: Reconstructing Memory Limerick City Gallery of Art. Following a residency in Mexico, Van der Grijn presents intricately haunting installations embodying various ritualistic means of coping with the ultimate shockwave of bereavement.

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Author: Rebecca Kennedy

The Thin Air

Irish artist Cléa van der Grijn has spent nearly a decade meditating on our society’s response to death and loss. From 2008’s Momentos to her new show, Reconstructing Memory, in Sligo’s The Model, the artist has harbored a fixation with death and loss – a fixation that has nourished her creative process. Reconstructing Memory is…

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Author: Niall MacMonagle

Irish Independent

What Lies Beneath For Sligo-based artist Clea van der Grijn, there were “too many lost years trying to be something I was not. I was a rather hedonistic creature and hedonism did not serve me well”. But the found years have delivered an extraordinary, impressively varied body of work, including painted fabric, a locust sculpture,…

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