In the exhibition Mothers and Sisters and Daughters Nadine Byrne moves through a relational landscape where the body, memory and language are woven tightly together. The title points to three positions — the mother, the sister, the daughter — not as fixed identities but as states, roles and transitions. Here she examines how these relationships are carried, repeated and reshaped across generations, through materials, through sound and tone.

The exhibition can be seen as a continuation of Byrne’s earlier work, in which materials such as textile, sound, video and organic substances have functioned as carriers of personal experience. Where the fragile and ever changeable reflect an emotional condition. In the current exhibition these traces remain, but they have shifted from an intimate grieving process to a more relational and generative field. The process of mourning is no longer central and reactive to loss, but woven into the relations among mothers, sisters and daughters. An inheritance or a transmission, but also an opportunity for new formulation. There is a movement from the closed to the open, from inward processing to a more outward investigation of how experiences are shared, and circulated.