Opening Reception Thursday 13 September at 7pm

not sorry is an intimate portrait of the Irish teenager and young adult. At a time when almost everything is on display, unrestricted disclosure is the norm and affected social networking profiles are updated daily on Facebook, not sorry literally goes behind closed doors into the private territory of the bedroom and seeks to expose the genuine individual beneath the public persona. Taking its title from one of the responses to a confidential survey, the exhibition combines the personal expression evident on the walls, floors and other surfaces of the bedroom with participants’ frank, and sometimes, brutally honest written expression of their personal identity. not sorry celebrates the complexities of youth and explores how outward signs – be they adornments to one’s habitat or to one’s self – can both corroborate and contradict inner character.

Theresa Nanigian’s practice involves creating portraits of contemporary Western life, be it a profile of a single individual, a catastrophic event or an entire country. These representations often borrow the analytical systems, tools and aesthetics of other disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, economics and logic. Nanigian works in installation, moving image, text, drawing, and more recently, photography. Her most recent exhibitions include Travelogue (public art commission), Apertures & Anxieties (RHA) and I Am Not A Poet (TotalKunst Gallery, Edinburgh).