GOMA Gallery of Modern Art is delighted to present Hellbound, an art exhibition by Breda Lynch. This show at GOMA Waterford presents new artwork that has not been presented in public before.
Working with found imagery and collage, Lynch’s practice excavates the visual culture of queer identity, social regulation, and political persuasion across time. The results are wry, disquieting, and refuse easy resolution.
“My art practice examines the aesthetics of visual images from the public domain, with a particular interest in the rhetoric of ‘queer’ identities, practices, and types of social regulation and protest. This interest is rooted in the emergence and evolution of popular culture and the historic assertions of socio-political movements across the circuits of social media, then as now. My practice is at once an archive of the oppositional and conservative, the radical and the phobic, and an opportunity to consider how any public claim achieves performative force through the manipulations of the visual.
While I use irony, humour, and a sense of the ridiculous as a means of subversion, I am also interested in collapsing past and present. Here, my appropriations of ‘found’ imagery and collage techniques suggest that many of the problems of the past – around identity, gender, sexuality etc. – haunt our allegedly liberal present. My work aims to be a chilling reminder of how many of us can be persuaded by the pernicious, though ultimately hopes to explode such fictions.”
– Breda Lynch 2026
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