Embedded
Performance collaboration with Ella Bertilsson
3 - 5pm August 7 2024

performed as part of Domestic Bodies, an exhibition of performative installations by Áine Phillips and collaborators exploring themes of home, shelter and sustenance in the context of domestic space. The works aim to push the limits and potentials of domestic things to create metaphors for female subjectivity and experience. The exhibition as a whole confronts the pleasures, discontents and struggles of habitation: finding, keeping, and the meaning of home.
126 Artist-Run Gallery, Galway, 7 - 24 August 2024
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Embedded is a collaborative performance with Ella Bertilsson, the scenogrpahy is made of 10 pigmented double duvets and sheets creating a topography under which the artists explore autonomy, security and safe resting place. Allusions to the mysteries and transformations of sleep and rest performed in public highlight the universal need for sanctuary, especially in relation to the mass homelessness of our times.

Internationally known for four decades of performance and video artwork that constantly challenge the patriarchal structures of society… (Michele Horrigan curator of Tulca Festival of Visual Art 2024)

Áine Phillips is an artist based in Galway who has been making installations, art films and performances since the late 80s. She creates live performance, installation and video works for multiple contexts: public space, social events, galleries, theatres, museums, biennales and film festivals. Her work incorporates socially engaged practice and she often works with communities of place and or interest, including many collaborations with Irish and international artists. Curating, writing and teaching are also part of her diverse practice. She holds a doctorate in performance art from the national College of Art and Design Dublin and is head of sculpture at Burren College of Art in County Clare. Her critically acclaimed edited volume Performance Art in Ireland: A History was published by Intellect Books/ LADA London in 2015. Her work is collected by the National Museum of Ireland and Galway Museum.


Ella Bertilsson is a multi-award winning visual artist based between Dublin and Callan. She is a recipient of a Project Studio Award at TBG+S 24/25 and is an Associate Artist with Museum of Everyone 23/24. Recently awarded The  Art Council of Ireland's Next Generation Award 23/24. Solo exhibitions; Forthcoming at The Horse '25,  LIFE POND, Ballina Art Centre '24, A PEANUT WORM'S DREAM, The Dock 23/24, and CUT THE CAKE WITH CLAWS, The Complex '22. Selected group exhibitions; Tides of Monumental Gestures, Luan Gallery with MOE '24, Endlessnessnessness, The Lab Gallery ’24 and Periodical Review 11, Pallas Projects/Studios '22.She has 1st class honours Fine Art Print (BA) and MFA; Art in The Digital World, both awarded from the National College of Art and Design IRE '09, '15 and Comparative Literature Studies and Creative Writing from Södertörn University SWE ’12.www.ellabertilsson.net/