ORIGINS 2025

4 Oct-19 Oct 2025

Overview

We are delighted to present Origins, selected from the 2025 undergraduate shows across Ireland. This is an annual exhibition held each autumn as a way of presenting emerging artists, alongside our programme of national and international artists.

Origins 2025 presents a solo exhibition by Andra Postolache, a Romanian-born, Cork-based visual artist, recently graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design. Andra considers the 'female gaze' through an expanded photographic practice, experimenting with the fragmentation of images. Her works inspires introspective moments through the production of a multi-faceted viewing experience comprising installation, projection and print-making.

Her most recent body of work, Under Scrutiny, creates an immersive and surveillant space that interrogates the dynamic between viewer and subject in order to reveal female subjectivities. Simultaneously tender and confronting, Andra's work reveals moments of vulnerability, elation, tension, pleasure and poignancy.

Postolache's research process involves interviewing participants about their lived experiences of womanhood. How do you know you're a woman? Are you caring? Are you bitter? Are you enough? She invites the viewer to answer similar questions, creating a ripple effect and encouraging an introspective study of femininity regardless of one's gender identity or expression.