Ceaseless, more & Overline, 2024
Video footage

Kate McElroy is an Irish artist, her practice spans across media, presenting a dynamic ecology of photography processes, moving image, sound, spoken word and sculptural installation. Her work questions the altering environment and our place within it.

Existing in a space between construction and destruction, her work highlights a moment of precarity. McElroy probes the unsustainable space between capitalism’s constant need for growth and the incipient destruction of our natural environment and human experience. Through correlating different media that spans across places and times she questions the interlinked nature of our current conjuncture.

Ceaseless, more is a critical configuration of political, social and environmental observations in poetic form. It relates the effects of these altering systems on the human experience. Overline is a video piece created with coalesced video footage from various cities across Europe. It examines the financialization and homogenization of place. Capturing the phantasmagorical effects of these glass and steel structures it echoes the illusionary and disorientating sense of living within the structures of neoliberalism.