Walker and Walker

In Constellation, the meteorite is the exhibition's central trope, drawn from Seamus Heaney's "Exposure": an "alien" object he longs to encounter on a rain-soaked landscape to grant his words authority otherwise lacking. A single LED sign poetically challenges Heaney's conceit, accompanied by a group of text-based works examining the artist's role today.

Walker and Walker are Joe Walker and Pat Walker, collaborating since 1989 across film, sculpture, drawing and installation. Their research driven practice exploits the threshold of meaning and its construction, activating what eludes definition, the overlooked in typography, the misreading of a text, the ill defined or unresolved, to open new narratives. Representing Ireland at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 with Nightfall and staging major solo projects such as IMMA’s Nowhere without no(w) in 2019, they destabilise fixed readings and invite unsettled encounters with language, image and temporality.