Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Dublin
July 2025
Emily Waszak’s textile and assemblage works are informed by rituals of her Japanese cultural heritage, experiences of grief and the landscape of her home in Donegal. Using both ancient and contemporary weaving techniques, alongside the collection and display of found materials and other handmade objects, Waszak combines processes that transcend time and place to find meaning in loss and understand how to access otherworldliness. Waszak has produced several large-scale woven works for the exhibition using a combination of discarded waste textiles gathered from industrial sites, and fragments of fabric with deep personal significance. The textiles loom above a group of clay vessels holding ceremonial objects such as animal bones, which can be used as shakers in a form of incantation to connect with the spirit world.