Northern Ireland faces a disproportionate systemic problem with femicide and gendered violence. ANIMA explores what we as a society tolerate or brush under the carpet in regard to domestic violence. This show incorporates the feminine, the ‘ANIMA’ showing a delicacy in the materials and using scale as a method of showing the vastness of the issue.

Stereotypically feminine colours and shapes are used as a footprint for what we feel comfortable talking about, vs things we can’t or are not allowed to say for fear of retaliation or suppression -the redacted lines. With current global events regarding certain files, and how as a society we refuse to believe women – it unfortunately took thousands of redacted lines for us to admit it has never been about protecting women or children.

ANIMA Part 1 explores the discrepancy of justice for victims of gender-based violence and is an active call for societal reform.

Anna Vidamour is a multidisciplinary installation artist whose work explores the complexities of the human condition through lived experience. She works across large-scale sculpture, film, performance, sound, and painting, rooted in a radical feminist lens and a commitment to social justice.

Drawing on Newton’s First Law of Inertia, she examines how trauma irreversibly alters the body and mind. Using repurposed materials, she creates biomorphic forms-mangled female organs, phallic petals, distorted bodies-reclaiming agency in the wake of abuse. Themes of memory, transformation, and the life-death-rebirth cycle are central.