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29/1/2026 With compliments. Artist Alice Rekab’s new exhibition Clann Miotlantach/Mythlantics opens this Friday at the LCGA. Rekab’s works take the form sculptures, ‘expanded’ paintings, digital collages, films and performances. Photographed at the opening are from left the artists dad Stephen, Siobhan O'Reilly, acting director/curator, LCGA, artist Alice Rekab, Tourigah(10) and dad Tobe Omoteso. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22 29/1/2026 With compliments. Artist Alice Rekab’s new exhibition Clann Miotlantach/Mythlantics opens this Friday at the LCGA. Rekab’s works take the form sculptures, ‘expanded’ paintings, digital collages, films and performances. Photographed at the opening are from left the artists dad Stephen, Siobhan O'Reilly, acting director/curator, LCGA, artist Alice Rekab, Tourigah(10) and dad Tobe Omoteso. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22

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Artist Alice Rekab’s new exhibition Clann Miotlantach/Mythlantics opens this Friday at the LCGA. Rekab’s works take the form sculptures, ‘expanded’ paintings, digital collages, films and performances. Photographed at the opening are from left the artists dad Stephen, Siobhan O’Reilly, acting director/curator, LCGA, artist Alice Rekab, Tourigah(10) and dad Tobe Omoteso. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22

Dublin-based artist, Alice Rekab, launches Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics exhibition of newly created and past works at Limerick City Gallery of Art running up to April 5

Dublin-based artist, Alice Rekab, launches Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics exhibition of newly created and past works at Limerick City Gallery of Art
Photographed at the opening were artist Alice Rekab, Siobhan O’Reilly, Director/Curator, LCGA and Miquel Amado, the exhibitions curator. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22

Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics features both newly created works and an extended selection of works from the past decade at Limerick City Gallery of Art.

It showcases representations of Rekab’s father and paternal grandmother, nomoli (a carved stone figurine native to Sierra Leone and Liberia), West African and European architecture, animals, land, water, and the sky, among other elements.

It engages with the Atlantic Ocean as a shape-shifting terrain of both displacement and mythological recovery, encapsulating stories common to Irish and Black people, including repression and resistance across time and geography.


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Alice Rekab lives and works in Dublin. In 2025, they participated in the Liverpool Biennial and Edinburgh Art Festival, and their work was included in the group show Staying with the Trouble at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

Photographed at the opening were Limerick artist Shirani Bolle and Miquel Amado. Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22

Their recent solo shows include Mehrfamilienhaus, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2023) and Family Lines, The Douglas Hyde, Dublin (2022). Their first monograph was published by Distanz in 2023, coinciding with the exhibition at Museum Villa Stuck. Their work is in the collections of the Arts Council and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, among others.

The exhibition is produced by Sirius Arts Centre and curated by Miguel Amado, its Director.

The exhibition is realised in part with funding from the Arts Council through a Project Award. The exhibition has been originally conceived for, and presented at, Sirius Arts Centre, and following this presentation, it traveled across Ireland, including Galway Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, and Limerick City Gallery of Art, in collaboration with these venues.

Photographed at the opening were art technician Oisín O’Reilly, Newport and Kyra Klein, Limerick artist.
Photograph: Liam Burke/Press 22
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