Anna Boghiguian's First Irish Solo Exhibition at The Douglas Hyde

The Douglas Hyde in Dublin presents Period of Change, the first solo exhibition in Ireland by Anna Boghiguian. The show spans Gallery 1 & 2 this summer, featuring three major works. Central is The Chess Game (2022-2023), an oversized chess board with cut-outs of historical figures like Gavrilo Princip, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Josephine Baker, all Austrian in origin. A hanging mobile, The Uprising (2022), depicts Gandhi, Bill Gates, Martin Luther King, and Martin Cooper. In Gallery 2, a script by the artist is voiced by a woman, connecting Marie-Antoinette, Leon Trotsky, Josephine Baker, and Lenin. Boghiguian, daughter of an Armenian clockmaker, studied political science and art in Cairo in the 1960s and arts and music in Montreal in the early 1970s. She maintains a studio in Cairo and travels extensively. The exhibition uses the French Revolution's motto "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" as a starting point to explore change through overlapping histories of political ideologies and societal transformation, referencing events from the French Revolution to the Suez Crisis.