Eoghan Ryan
Eoghan Ryan (b. 1987, Dublin) engages moving image, installation, performance, puppetry, and collage to explore how power circulates socially and through mediated culture. His process involves long periods of editing; documenting a specific person, site, object, or song; and developing fable-like takes on the collective and the personal as institutions. These institutions range from states of being and nation-states to the cultivation of provisional culture, in art as in bacteria.
Selected shows, performances, and screenings have taken place at EVA International 2025, Limerick; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Viewmaster Projects, Maastricht; Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; Fundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; The Complex, Dublin; Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg; Centrale Fies, Dro; BFI London Film Festival and ICA London; Busan Biennale 2022; International Film Festival Rotterdam; VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images; Kunstverein Freiburg; South London Gallery; and Serralves Museum, Porto.
Collaging across media, performance and the archive, two films probe the architectures—material, political, and psychic—that shape Irish identity across borders. From a punative contemporary asylum system to the miasma of surveillance and hostility that shadowed Irish migrants to Britain in the 1970s and 80s, they expose a spectacle of belonging maintained and malformed by its systematic denial.