is an exhibition from photographer Doreen Kilfeather and stylist Aisling Farinella that explores the themes of retreat, domesticity, womanhood and nature.
Shot at Bothar Buí, the noted artist’s retreat in West Cork during winter and summer of 2020/2021, and with fashion by Simone Rocha, it’s a dreamy and visceral nod to contemporary Irish creativity …Aisling: It was the pandemic, life was crap and we were all stuck in our pressure cookers of homes, with restricted lives, and Doreen invited me to go down and shoot for a few days with her daughter Elsa. We went twice, once in October 2020 and again in July 2021.
Kilfeather’s daughter Elsa, a graduate of production design at IADT, was the model for each portrait.were something that would make sense for lots of different reasons: the location, access during the pandemic, plus all of the different themes that go through Simone’s work including Ireland, domesticity and femininity. It was important that the fashion was part of the storytelling, but I didn’t want it to take over, either.
A: It’s not retreat in terms of running away, it’s more powerful: retreat and grow. You have to take the time in life to do these things. Retreat is still needed now as much as it was back then.A: We shot in very much a domestic space, it’s a lived-in home. That meant motherhood was a big theme. Doreen being Elsa’s mum, I’m also a mum: I loved so much watching a mother shooting her daughter, and a daughter being photographed by her mother, it’s a unique experience to get access to.
D: The bedspreads on all the beds have been there since, I’d say, the 1960s or 1970s, like something you’d see in your granny’s house. They’ve been frayed and they’ve been darned and you can see someone has put in a bit of an old blanket and stitched over that, so you’ve just got these layers and layers, years of domesticity.
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