Manannán’s cloak: dul i mBá, 2025

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Handschuh’s work explores an attempted reunification between body and land in response to land dysphoria. It centres on desire and longing within a built environment that has become detached from the land, reducing it to an object to be owned, controlled, and manipulated.

Here, body and land are understood as osmotic: porous and mutually influential. This convergence unfolds within a trough-like vessel filled with bog water and chemical fertilisers gathered from a non-native forest floor. While moments of arrival emerge, they exist only within the vessel’s confines, which is newly metamorphosed into a sealed tomb.

A section of Manannán mac Lir’s cloak hangs between these sites, knitted in Irish moss stitch, flexing and straining under its own weight.