For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing
What kind of role does art actually play in society? From the Bauhaus to Thomas Hirschhorn, and from The Yes Men to Jean-Luc Godard, how and in what ways does art circulate beyond the sphere of the art world?
Matthew Darbyshire’s architectural interventions, installations and displays of consumer objects hone in on the gap between what is promised by those who shape our world and what is actually on offer