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HARDCORE FENCING, 2024
single channel video, 15:07 min.

HARDCORE FENCING' is a video work confronting the challenges of self-perception in an era dominated by incessant streams of digital content. Appropriated and artificially generated images are employed to create an environment that resonates at the blurred intersection between celebrity culture, alienation, and violence. Examining the unrelenting pressure to perform all aspects of the self within the hyper-competitive landscape of platforms, the work explores how emotional pain and vulnerability are commodified as a marker of authenticity. At its core ‘HARDCORE FENCING’ examines a personal struggle with compulsive content consumption. Spinning cars, flesh masks, and looming environmental disasters run parallel with the rise and fall of influencers, evoking endless self-consuming loops. Content appears as nodes of emotion. 'Reality' is performed and re-reformed. Memories deformed.The landscape is one of isolation, loneliness and insecurity where viewers are invited to reflect on the emerging fragmented sense of contemporary male identity.

Exhibited/Screened:
2025
I DON'T FEEL ANYTHING, TRIBECA GALLERY, New York, USA 
I’m (Un)real Boy, PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic
The Burden of the Image, The Hugh Lane Gallery
Goldsmiths University of London
Staying with the Trouble, Irish Museum of Modern Art
Planned Obsolescence, SEAGER, London 

2024
Romeo Save Me, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (solo)
Uncanny Valley, Palazzo Bronzo, Genova
Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel
Digital Art Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
UNTHINKABLE, Hull, UK 
Toxi Space, Zürich, Switzerland
this is perfect, perfect, perfect, Transmediale, Berlin 
FAKE BODY, Platform Arts Belfast