BLACK ELEPHANT

JESS HIGGINS

21 September - 17 November 2018 @ CCAS: Gorman Arts Centre

Throughout her exhibition Jess Higgins invokes the hybrid concept of the ‘Black Elephant’ – a cross between a ‘black swan’ (an improbable, unexpected event with devastating ramifications) and ‘the elephant in the room’ (a problem that is obvious to everyone and yet no one is interested in acknowledging it). The three works are a timely response to the ‘black elephant’ and designed to create discomfort in her audiences. Imagine oneself inside the belly of the beast, a black room that is itself the elephant and the works representative of waves of catastrophic events.

Image: Jess Higgins The Known Knowns #1 (detail) 2018