A West Cork-based visual artist – no stranger to Galway through her residencies, exhibitions and study – has taken a totally unique approach to the invasive Japanese Knotweed for her latest project, which opens this Saturday at the Galway Arts Centre.

Dr Siobhán McGibbon’s Xenophon: Making Oddkin with Japanese Knotweed runs until February 25 at the Dominick Street Centre.

This exhibition continues McGibbon’s exploration into multi-species futures through the world of Xenophon. This alter-imaginary is populated by Xenothorpians, a fluid species that commune and mutate with living and non-living entities to adapt to the Anthropocene.

Their hybridisations provide a backdrop from which new stories emerge – a satirical approach to the problem of humans.

Siobhan McGibbon is a visual artist and world-builder based in West-Cork. She graduation with a BA (Hon) in Fine Art from what was then GMIT, followed by practice-based, research-led PhD at the Limerick School of Art and Design.

Her Galway residencies included a stint at Galway University Hospital in 2014, at CÚRAM – the Centre for Research in Medical Devices – in 2015, and at REMEDI, the regenerative medicine institute, in 2016.

The title of this exhibition draws on Donna Haraway’s approach to Making kin, emphasising the necessity to enlarge our capacity to care and nurture relations with the odd and unexpected and company we keep.

The works reveal the artist’s personal exploration into the complexities of living well with the unkempt edges of the garden, brimming with creatures and invasive species.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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