BASIC TALKS ~ Venus Patel ~ July 2023

1pm, 7/7/2023 Hugh Lane Gallery

Basic Space is delighted to present Venus Patel for our July BASIC TALK - 1pm on Friday the 7th of July 2023 at Hugh Lane Gallery.

Venus Patel is an experimental film and performance artist based in Dublin. Born in Los Angeles, she attended TU Dublin in 2018, graduating with a first honours in Fine Art. Her degree work, Eggshells, won the top prize at the RDS Visual Art Awards in 2022, and she has since had her first solo exhibition, Monsters of the Apocalypse, with Pallas Projects in 2023. Her work has been exhibited in The Complex, Butler Gallery, and The Glucksman. 

 Her work concerns her experience as a trans femme of colour, trying to navigate the world. Through the use of costuming, loose gender expression, and public performance, she encapsulates the campy blend of her queer identity. Venus questions the heteronormative society we live in, why the need to conform is so heavily enforced, and how that affects the perceptions of ourself, others, and the world around us. Although her work deals with serious subject matter, she utilises a unique mix of humour, absurdity, and abjection to create multi-faceted performances and experiences.

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BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.

Admission is FREE you can get your ticket here or come along on the day.