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Jennifer Trouton is a Belfast-based artist whose practice incorporates paint, embroidery, wallpaper, textiles and artefacts. Formally her work appropriates the tropes of traditional still life painting, a genre that was traditionally associated with female artists due to their sex barring them from acquiring the necessary anatomical knowledge to paint ‘high genre’ works of portraiture, history or religion.
In Plain Sight is an exhibition featuring large-scale and intimately sized works which balance themes that are historical, social and personal. Trouton plays with the still-life genre in compositions that are simultaneously traditional and darkly subversive. Her colour palette evokes a calm sense of nostalgia that draws in her viewers, before asking them to consider Ireland’s uncomfortable relationship with women’s reproductive rights, one that is still evolving and is forever subject to the political and ideological mores of others
The exhibition considers the women impacted by societal and religious attempts to suppress reproductive rights in Ireland. It highlights how, regardless of continued attempts to reduce the influence and autonomy of women, they still accessed the tools necessary to control their own destinies. In many cases, they found the objects of their own emancipation in the domestic spaces that were assigned to them. The found them in plain sight.
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