Siobhán Hapaska's 'The Weight of Nothingness' at Kerlin Gallery

Kerlin Gallery in Dublin has opened 'The Weight of Nothingness', a solo exhibition by Siobhán Hapaska featuring new sculpture and photography. The show explores absence as both a material and psychological condition. A central piece, 'The man with a stone in his stomach inverts sunflowers', depicts a lone figure on a makeshift plinth with a hollowed core filled with a stone, its identity obscured. The darkened skeletal framework appears devotional yet exhausted, offering inverted blue sunflowers that deny their typical sunny optimism. Surrounding this are wall-mounted sculptures made from twisted concrete cloth with resin and Jesmonite, a material usually associated with reinforcement and containment, which Hapaska manipulates into bodily forms. Each work features glass-like forms escaping from the folds.