Where there is hair there is happiness

Bluewall Gallery, Corracanvy, Co Cavan Tues-Sat 11am-5.30pm, Sun 2.30-5.30pm Oct 2-27 bluewallgallery.com 049-4361627

Vanessa Donoso López is one of the most intriguing people to have studied at the NCAD in recent years (she also studied at Winchester and Barcelona, and is, as her name might suggest, Spanish). López adapts systems of knowledge, information, learning and classification – the various means we use to formulate, promulgate and often impose our understanding of what exactly the world is and what exactly we are, and what on earth is going on anyway. And she does this from, essentially, a child’s perspective. From, in fact, her own reimagined childhood perspective. As López puts it, “I play to be scientific, I play to be a chemist, I play to be McGyver, I play to be an artist. Pure fun.”

López throws herself into her projects with energy, and skill. They suggest tremendous faith in methodology and also, with a certain humour, a skepticism about out ability to understand anything at all.

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