The Lived Experience
A Conversation with Orla Barry
It was a warm reunion with Orla Barry at the late-June opening of her exhibition ‘Shaved Rapunzel & La Petite Bergère Punk’ at the MACS, Grand-Hornu. Ever since I first encountered her work in the late 1990s, Barry’s texts, videos and images have never let go of me. When she moved from Brussels back to Duncormick, Ireland in 2009, it was not a farewell but rather a relocation that led to a new direction in her artistic practice. At a time when our relationship with nature is at the forefr (…)
