A common nostalgia pervades the intimate visions of apparently familiar places and contexts.
Gaia Bobò
In Between Times brings together the works of Sinéad Breslin and Anne Buckwalter in a dialogue of suspended intimacy, memory, and domesticity. The artists dissolve explicit narrative in favor of evocative ambiguity, rendering domestic interiors and human presence with poetic disquiet. Curated around the concept of atmospheric suspension, the exhibition explores the spaces between memory and reality, order and disruption, presence and absence.
Anne Buckwalter’s paintings blend metaphysical calm with moments of erotic rupture. Her precise, almost ritualistic use of pattern becomes a quiet battleground between order and desire, presenting the domestic as a stage where intimacy flickers, elusive and voyeuristically framed. Her work invites yet destabilizes the viewer’s gaze, hinting at pleasure, secrecy, and the uncanny undercurrents of everyday life.
In contrast, Sinéad Breslin’s expressive and gestural canvases engage memory as a tactile act. Her figures and settings emerge like echoes from an old photograph—vivid yet intangible. Her use of decorative motifs becomes less a structure than a rhythm through which emotions pulse and fade, shaping a tender confrontation with memory’s absences.
While stylistically distinct, Breslin and Buckwalter share a visual lexicon rooted in repetition, intimacy, and pattern, using these elements to explore the delicate tension of inhabiting, recalling, and witnessing personal spaces. In Between Timesreflects on the moments that lie just outside linear time—where memory, fantasy, and lived experience blur.
