Áine O’Hara is a visual artist, designer and disability advocate based in Ireland

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Luan Gallery is delighted to present Affective Forms, a group exhibition featuring work by Tara Carroll, Sian Costello, Phelim Hoey, Áine O’Hara, Day Magee, and Rajinder Singh.

Affective Forms is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that explores evolving representations of the human body in contemporary Irish art through painting, photography, sculpture, performance, installation, and film. Foregrounding the lived experiences of bodies often marginalised in mainstream visual culture, Affective Forms brings together works that rethink the human body not as an isolated or idealised figure, but as a relational, sensing, and meaning-making site, while examining the emotional and spatial connections between body and environment.

Working through photography, sculpture and text, Áine O’Hara’s work is informed by queer and crip* theory, disability justice scholarship, and lived experience as a multiply disabled, chronically sick queer person. Produced during extended bed confinement, the work reflects fatigue, pain, isolation, and reduced capacity, yet asserts presence in public spaces where sick and disabled bodies are often excluded, challenging assumptions about access, visibility, and legitimacy.