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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. At the same time, I was encountering the sudden appearance of vast wind turbines across the bleak, landscape where I live in the West of Ireland—structures I'd never seen there before. Their towering presence felt dystopian yet strangely elegant, like dancers in a ruined choreography.
This visual and conceptual collision informed a loose narrative centred on a lone female figure walking through a post-strike terrain. She is observed from afar, her movement and presence forming the core language of the work. Ends of the Earth explores gender, power, and the landscape as both witness and partner—a space shaped by history, electricity, and the bodies that pass through it.