Ciara Davitt
she/her
Did you know that gold comes from the stars?
Ciara Davitt, a multi-disciplinary artist based between Kildare and Dublin, is interested in revealing parts played within environments and who decides what happens with places. She uses her practice to create cycles of taking, returning and sharing, in order to unearth spaces or elements needed for things to be heard.
This recent work emerges from researching socio-political conditions of extraction, power structures, and land. Her time spent at a Roadstone quarry and the Bog of Allen has informed her research; witnessing geological and organic processes, in contrast to violent and extractive action. Speaking to heavy paradoxes occurring between the timescales of landscapes and human production - harsh and soft materials, fast and slow processes are instruments of translation. Chemical traits of soil, field recordings of extracted landscapes, casts of her Dad’s fingers and reclaimed metal are some elements used to draw out a conversation around rupture, time, wealth distribution and social impact.
