CRUX an artist-run collective founded in 2020 in Dublin by Frances Hennigan, Lana May Fleming, and Luke van Gelderen, is dedicated to digital and nomadic art projects. Notable recent endeavours include the off-site exhibition and accompanying website ‘crux.project’ at Rathmichael Ringfort, Dublin (2020), and inclusion in "Return to Disintegration--Periodical Review 11” at Pallas Projects/Studios (2021).
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Luke van Gelderenworks across video, sculpture, and digital media, creating immersive installations that examine the performance and mediation of contemporary identities through technology. Converging celebrity culture, alienation, masculinity and violence, his work is grounded in his own experience of recurring intrusive thoughts and images amplified by the internet. Recent solo exhibitions include: 'HARDCORE FENCING', Pallas Projects/Studios (2024); 'unrecognisable (spillway)', Ormond Art Studios (2020); 'My Activity', Rua Red (2019); 'Chatroulette', K4 Galleri, Oslo (2019). Recent group exhibitions include: 'this is perfect, perfect, perfect', Transmediale, Berlin (2024); 'Manslows Hammer–Periodical Review 13', Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2023); 'LOCKJAW', Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin (2023); 'FAKE BODY', Platform Arts, Belfast (2023); 'you breathe differently down here', Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2022) and 'Rendering New Realities', The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2021). Recent screenings include Toxi Space, Zurich (2024) and Terrarista TV, online (2020). He lives and works in Dublin and is a current studio member in Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Lana May Fleming is a visual artist based in Dublin, working across video and performance. Her practice explores the modification of food imagery and the female body highlighting the pressure women face to physically and digitally alter their bodies for social media, comparing it to the historical sexualisation of food in commercial imagery. Fleming was the recipient of the Fingal Residency Award with Mart Gallery and Studios and the IADT and Pallas Projects/Studios Mentorship Award (2020) and an awardee in ‘you breathe differently down here’, Draíocht (2022). Solo exhibitions: Watering Hole, DIVA, Dublin (2022) and meat clown, aerial, Bergen, Norway (2022). Recent group exhibitions: MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat) prøverommet and the Bergen centre for electronic arts (2022), LOCKJAW, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin (2023), FAKE BODY, Platform Arts, Belfast (2023).
Frances Hennigan works with painting and video, examining the relationship between glamour, scandal and truth in online politics. Her work teases out topics surrounding the thirst for internet fame such as; misinformation, performative political activism and celebrity political influencers. Frances completed an MA in Art + Research Collaboration from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dun Laoghaire in 2022 and was awarded a fellowship of Digital Culture with Kulturforum Witten in 2023. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Dead of Night’, Saalbau Witten, DE (2024); ‘Internationales Digitale Kunst Festival’, Kultur im Bunker, Stuttgart, DE (2023); ‘Wax Rhapsodic’, The LAB Gallery, Dublin, IRE (2022). She lives and works between Essen and Duisburg and is a current studio member of Atelier66.