'Best Before' Exhibition

Best Before 02.10. 2025 - A Group Exhibition curated by Johannah Fennessy

Borrowing its title from expiry codes on consumables, Best Before reflects on finite sources through sculpture, alternative photography, found objects and moving image. Organised by recent TU Dublin Graduate and Flux Graduate Residency award winner Johannah Fennessy, they bring together seven emerging and established artists whose practices critically engage with technology, ecology, and material transformation.

Best Before: 02.10.2025 examines our shifting relationship with tools from fire to film to the blue light of the digital screen. At a moment when artificial intelligence increasingly feeds upon its own outputs, and technologies that are perceived to be obsolete. What becomes of obsolete tools, images, and materials once discarded? What do the traces of what we leave behind reveal about us? Drawing inspiration from Yuval Noah Harari’s reflections in Nexus on AI’s closed feedback loops, the exhibition explores cycles of obsolescence, recursion, and regeneration. Through works spanning cyanotype, film, sculpture, moving image, photography, VR, textiles, and hybrid installations, the artists interrogate how technological systems intersect with memory, identity, and the natural world.

Serena Devereux: A multidisciplinary artist working across video, CGI, VR, browser-based works, and immersive installations, Devereux’s practice examines phenomenology and the shifting perception of reality in digitally altered spaces. Her work navigates the collapse between the “real” and the virtual, questioning how identity and presence are constructed in the digital age.

Merve Sagit: Working with photography, poetry, printmaking, and textiles, Sagit combines cyanotypes, lumen prints, and obsolete circuitry with botanical and archival materials. Her practice resists algorithmic speed, instead proposing cyclical, regenerative processes rooted in light, touch, and organic matter.

Éile Ní Fhiaich: A sculptor and assemblage artist, Ní Fhiaich explores the entanglement of human and non-human species, matter, and waste. Through hybrid forms combining ceramics and industrial debris, her works speculate on post-human futures where ecosystems adapt to and absorb human excess.

Ahmet Dündar: Investigating the fluidity of identity and the dissolution of boundaries between organic and artificial, Dündar creates hybrid entities that fuse bacterial cellulose, robotics, and cast materials. His kinetic works invite audiences to continually reevaluate what constitutes life and material agency.

Jessie Aylmer: Through photography and drawing, Aylmer maps the overlaps between personal and public spaces. Using Polaroids, analogue photography, and architectural grids, her work blurs the scientific with the sacred, reflecting on how spatial memory is measured, recorded, and transformed.

Sasha Fitzherbert: is a mixed-media artist whose work spans moving image, painting, installation, and photography. Her practice investigates the layered relationships between body, machine, and environment, often using obsolete technologies and found materials to explore the fragility of perception in an overstimulated world. Recurring themes include the collapse of memory, the abstraction of identity, and the ways digital systems mirror and mediate human experience.

Alex Del Chill: An Irish/Italian photographer based in Dublin, Del Chill explores storytelling and the ways images invite viewers to fill narrative gaps with their own imagination. His portraits often craft alternate realities, presenting subjects as larger-than-life personas. A distinctive use of colour and harmony runs throughout his work, shaping vivid worlds that hover between reality and fiction.

Johannah Fennessy: A multidisciplinary artist and curator of Best Before: 02.10.25 , Fennessy works with cyanotypes, film photography, and found objects. Her practice traces the persistence of analogue light-based processes as counterpoints to the acceleration and erasure of digital technologies.

Dates: October 2nd - 5th Venue: Flux Studios Gallery, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin 2

Opening Reception - Thurs Oct 2, 18:00 - 21:00

Exhibitions runs - Fri & Sat, 11:00 - 17:00

Sun, 11:00 - 15:00

Curator: Johannah Fennessy