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Aideen Barry, The Creator of Birds, After Varo, 2025.

Aideen Barry

The Creator of Birds, After Varo, 2025, 2025

Photograph 

‘The Creator of Birds, After Varo, 2025 is a still from my new film, “Embroidering the Earth’s Mantel”, premiering later this year. In this self-portrait, I embody the surreal protagonist from Remedios Varo’s seminal painting: a creature part human, part owl, who animates birds through magical artistic creation. Inspired by the pioneering Surrealist painter, this work celebrates creative resistance and highlights Varo’s invaluable yet marginalised legacy. My homage brings renewed focus to Varo’s visionary artistry, challenging the erasure of female, refugee, and othered artists from art history’s dominant narratives.’

Cruthaitheoir Éan, I Stíl Varo, 2025, 2025

Grianghraf 

‘Is stadán é Cruthaitheoir Éan, I Stíl Varo, 2025, ó mo scannán nua dar teideal, “Embroidering the Earth’s Mantel”, a bheidh á thaispeáint den chéad uair níos déanaí i mbliana. San fhéinphortráid seo, tugtar léargas orm i riocht príomhphearsan osréalaí ó phictiúr ceannródaíoch Remedios Varo: neach, leathdhuine daonna, leath-ulchabhán, a thugann éin chun beochta trí shaothar ealaíne draíochtúil. Spreaghta ag an phéintéir Osréalaíoch ceannródaíoch, tá ceiliúradh á dhéanamh sa saothar seo ar fhrithsheasmhacht chruthaitheach agus tá aird á tarraingt ar oidhreacht luachmhar ach imeallaithe Varo. Tarraingíonn mo chomhartha ómóis aird arís ar ealaín fhíseach Varo, agus tugtar dúshlán na heaspa airde a thugtar ar ealaíontóirí baineanna, ar dídeanaithe iad agus atá eilearánaithe ó phríomhinsintí stair na healaíne.'

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