In the current exhibition at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin until next March the renowned Irish-Parsee sculptor Siobhan Hapaska uses the Medici lion to explore current crises, democratic failure, war and climate. Ideas of shifting power and loss are expressed through a large scale lion which is fractured and suspended at the centre of the double height space in the gallery. The ambient sound was captured at Westminster Abbey as Queen Elizabeth lay in state. The artist likes ideas that are adrift, to suggest rather than dictate a reaction. Her singular voice in contemporary sculpture expresses hope, desire and longing in the face of adversity.
