“Clash of Contiguity” focuses on photographic performances. Exploring the idea of one's social Identity and how it also connects with the habitual unstableness of Northern Ireland politics. The performances observe similar, unselfconscious body posture that is form within the natural and manufactured landscape, showing the endurance and strength of the feminine body. United Kingdom (U.K) left the European Union (E.U) on the 31st of January 2021. Leaving the UK as an independent country. However, Boris Johnson never fully acknowledges the distress and impact it would have on Northern Ireland, more specifically how a hard border could affect the progress of relationship and connections within Northern Ireland since the Good Friday Agreement, which was signed in 1988.
This raises questions about the artists own personal identity within the democratic country, but also the identity of Northern Ireland during this period of transition and separation. Approaching the concept, the artist focuses on the connection and tension within the environment of Northern Ireland’s Identity and reflecting that though the body language of the artist individual figure. The artist body is placed, unselfconsciously, to form a connecting border between the landscape and the artist body, creating a visual hard border. The visual barrier that the body makes states the unsecured and tension people have with Brexit and how it would impact Northern Ireland - how it has impacted Northern Ireland. The tension is reflected by positioning her body in an awkward and endurance situation within man made and natural landscapes, that give the viewer a sense of ‘about to collapse.’
