Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to launch a new exhibition entitled Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics by Alice Rekab.

Alice Rekab is an artist based in Dublin. They examine the intersection of personal and broader, shared historical and cultural narratives via the perspective of identity and memory, informed by their lived experience as a person with both Irish nationality and Sierra Leonean ancestry. Specifically, they operate within the framework of the family unit to address themes of artistic relationships and inheritance, ethnicity, hybridity, and a sense of place and belonging.

Rekab’s works take the form of sculptures, ‘expanded’ paintings, digital collages, films, and performances. They call upon ‘poor’ techniques and ‘embodied’ and ‘domestic’ materials, both found and collected, for instance clay, old and private photographs, memorabilia, heirlooms, books, mirrors, and salvaged and repurposed furniture and textiles. They are composite interactions with subject matter, imageries, storytelling, and symbolism.

This exhibition features both newly created works and an extended selection of works from the past decade. 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.

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. 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.

Alice Rekab: Clann Miotlantach / Mythlantics 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 is travelling across Ireland, including Galway Arts Centre, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, and Limerick City Gallery of Art, in collaboration with these venues. This tour is produced by Rayne Booth, with funding from the Arts Council through the Touring of Work Scheme.