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Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + PS², Belfast.
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Queer reflections on life cycles & ruins with Jennifer Mehigan’s off-site exhibition in an Irish garden of Belfast

, 5 October 2020
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Creamatorium, a solo off-site exhibition by Jennifer Mehigan with Ria Adeyinka and Bassam Al-Sabah, was presented by PS² at Peas Park, Belfast on September 25.

Jennifer Mehigan, Creamatorium (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + PS², Belfast.

Featuring large-scale cutout prints in a garden setting, as well as a reading in fetish wear by Adeyinka of a text by Mehigan, the show created an arcadian site for queer reflection on life cycles and ruins. This sentiment is expressed through the opening lines to the reading, a transcript of which is available on the artist’s website:

A short history of the Irish garden: you and your family are in the ground together. I won’t go into details, but it’s boring and slow work transitioning from human to compost. Above you, the surface warms and cools, moistens and dries in intervals, and when the soil reaches about 15 degrees celsius the seeds near the surface germinate. A shitty form of metamorphosis.**

Jennifer Mehigan’s Creamatorium was presented by PS² at Peas Park, Belfast on September 25, 2020.

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