Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Co Mayo Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-3pm Until Jul 30 096-73593

Sabina MacMahon has created a significant body of work based on the intriguing idea of reinterpreting the lives of the saints, once one of the staple subjects in Western art. MacMahon has reworked the theme in an early modern, slightly retrospective context, using the documentary media of our own rather than the Renaissance era. That is, she employs delicately manipulated old black-and-white photos as well as found objects and video. She has also tapped into a distinctively Irish view of Catholicism at a time when the status of church institutions hadn’t been undermined by problems and abuses that have come to light more recently.

Miraculous scenes that would have been represented as literal truths by the painters of the early Renaissance are documented as literal truths appearing in Irish family photograph albums, and the faithful credulity of the audience is conveyed through a deadpan, matter-of-fact delivery. For example, Jesus Walking on Water as a Young Man(pictured), is an ordinary be-suited Irishman of the 1930s or 1940s on a very Irish-looking lake.

MacMahon’s explorations of representation, belief, memory and myth are subtle, genuinely thought-provoking and more often than not very funny.

Can’t See That? Catch This

Unpacking the Terror The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon Until Sep 3 071-9650828