Age is a privilege, unless you forget! Debbie Castro

2 December 2023 - 9 February 2024 (LexIcon, Level 3)

See also Artist talk with Debbie Castro and guest speaker Gráinne Hope from GBHI (Global Brain Health Institute), Friday 9 February, Studio, dlr LexIcon 11.00am - 1.00pm (break for refreshments at 12.00), bookings via Eventbrite.

This exhibition is an intimate collaboration with the artist’s father, Charles. Multi-layered, it explores the perspective of a person living with dementia with an aim to open up a dialogue for the wider community.

There are no answers and no guarantees with this illness, only that it gets progressively worse. The number of people with dementia by 2051 worldwide is thought to rise to 250 million and as such, needs to be discussed as much as possible now.

This exhibition encourages visitors to find their own unique way of responding to the show and to experiences they may have had, of witnessing the decline in memory of people in their lives. It is through engagement with the exhibition that viewers will learn more about the experience and practice of the artist, while discovering more about themselves. Inside the lost and found memories of Debbie and her father, we are encouraged to form a mosaic of our own recollections, reveries and feelings.

Debbie Castro is an Irish artist based in London. She earned a BA in Psychology and Psychoanalysis and a MA in Photojournalism from the University of Westminster, UK. Castro began her career as a documentary photographer and has refocused her work as a conceptual documentary artist, adopting a collaborative approach to understanding life and photo therapy.