On a surface level, we associate Ireland and Chile with completely different geographies, cultures, histories, and overall aesthetics. Yet, Cecilia Vicuña’s solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey, argues that reality is more nuanced.

This never-before-exhibited body of work opens with a collection of small gelatin silver prints, shot in the early 2000s, depicting varying scenes across the Deep South.

Hauser & Wirth’s Susan Rothenberg exhibition The Weather features fourteen paintings that illustrate Rothenberg’s extraordinary ability to discern and renegotiate disparate fragments in a resolved whole. A relentless drive to illustrate humanity through weathered surfaces is at the crux of the exhibition.

Incorporating pictures taken in Italy as a fellow at the American Academy in Rome alongside imagery from Gray’s extensive photographic archive, the photo assemblages may immediately appear as a fragmented collection of juxtaposing narratives. However, close looking reveals the opposite to be true: Gray’s clever layering of forms and critical consideration of colonialism’s origins and repercussions illuminate striking parallels across time and space.