Zaratan is pleased to present a tide, a deed, a deed, a tide, a pop-up exhibition by Sheenagh Geoghegan showcasing the work developed during her residency in Lisbon. The exhibition is complemented by a conversation with the artist on Friday, November 28, at 6:00 PM (18h00). A limited-edition risograph poster, produced in collaboration with Stolen Prints, will also be launched.

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."
— Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

This work is built from what that tide and time leaves behind.

The objects I've been working with during this residency are gathered from the streets, their use-value exhausted, yet they are saturated with the "metabolic interaction" of human labor that Marx described.

I work with these things for their layers of stories, the histories I can only speculate about. They are forever mysteries, like the "why" of my own existence. In their haptic reality—their fractures and worn textures—I find a direct correspondence to our own fragile bonds: the ways we need each other, the ways we fall apart, and keep going.

To assemble them is a quiet deed against the tide of discard. It is an act of listening to the whispers of gone lives, a practice that echoes Frantz Fanon's belief that "In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself." From the pieces that were labeled useless, I trace a poignant map of our shared, interconnected existence.

 

BIOGRAPHY: Irish artist Sheenagh Geoghegan completed her MFA at The Slade School of Art, London, 2013, at her graduate degree show, she was awarded the Stanford Scholarship, The Orpen Award and The Charles Heath Hayward Award. She has also received numerous funding awards from The Arts Council and Culture Ireland.
She has exhibited widely in Europe and America including Cornell University, New York, 2019, Alma Zevi in Venice and Leila Heller Gallery, New York. She has participated in the Colour and Poetry Symposium at The Slade, University College London in 2025, 2024 and 2023. Her work is part of many public and private collections including Trinity College Dublin, Limerick City Gallery and The Environmental Protection Agency.
Recent solo exhibitions include Atelier Concorde in Lisbon (2023), and Camera Cluj, Cluj România (2024) and Limerick City Gallery of Art, 2025.
In 2026, she will take part in the prestigious Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency in Ireland.

LINK: https://www.sheenaghbgeoghegan.com/