“SPFC (buttprint)”, 2022, Falon Weaver and Aoife Ní Dhuinn,
concrete on brick wall, Dublin. On view Nov. 1 - TBD
Collaboration history:
Since 2021, visual artists Falon Weaver and Aoife Ní Dhuinn have shared a collaborative practice exploring their shared interest in existentialist thought, internet culture, and material exploration. Coming from respective backgrounds in painting and media, the duo use their collaboration as an opportunity to integrate these shared ideas through sculpture and installation. Their practice adopts a broad range of processes including concrete casting, ceramic sculpture, meme making and going for walks.
Work Description:
SPFC (buttprint) is part of a larger installation, “Shitposting From the Cryosphere” reflecting on fences/boarded sites around Dublin City and meme culture, exploring the parallels between their function as means of communication. The work appropriates materials and repeated signage found on the semi-permanent barriers surrounding vacant lots and construction sites, and encompasses the layers of irony used in the repetitive, low quality, and provocative posts
that define internet ‘shitposting’.
Currently:
Previously wheatpasted back onto the various Dublin sites that inspired it, SPFC (Buttprint) now finds its way onto the walls of Seattle’s own ‘gritty alley gallery’ feed at art gallery PKULTRA, the institution itself meshing into the conceptual organizing principles espoused by the SPFC artwork. With each iteration, this piece continues the memetic tradition, bridging time, distance, and borders to expand the landscape of modern folklore.
