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Ends of The Earth
Ends of the Earth is a moving-image work created for a series of international exhibitions through Wom@rts. It was sparked by Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, particularly her reflections on how women’s histories have been shaped through male narratives. Around this time, I was encountering the sudden appearance of vast wind turbines across the bleak landscape of the West of Ireland—structures I had never seen there before. Their towering presence felt dystopian, like dancers in a ruined choreography.
Ends of the Earth was filmed across multiple locations in Ireland, as well as in Budapest, with key scenes staged over three days at Moneypoint Power Station, one of the largest electricity plants in Europe. The power station offered a vast cinematic set: turbines, grids, and concrete chambers became a space where the performer’s movement responded to the presence of these immense structures, situating the female body at the threshold of infrastructures traditionally coded as masculine