Helen Kirwan is an artist working with performance, moving image and installation. Recurring themes are memory and memorial and fragment and trace. She is interested in the question of what is memory and how might it function and be visually represented. She asks what action can be taken, what objects can be assembled and what journeys can be undertaken in the service of memory and how is time in itself memorial and memory.
Her videos, video installations and performances have been shown in galleries, festivals and cinemas in many countries including the USA, Cuba, France, Turkey, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, India, UK and during the 55th, 56th and 57th Venice Biennales. She has undertaken artist residencies in Berlin, Ghent, Iceland and Ireland. Currently she is living and working in Cyprus.
Helen's latest video installation was premiered at the European Cultural Centre during the 59th Venice Biennale 2022 and subsequently presented in Nicosia December 2022 - January 2023.
