Northern Ireland faces a disproportionate systemic problem with femicide and gendered violence. ANIMA explores what we as a society tolerate or brush under the carpet in regard to domestic violence. This show incorporates the feminine, the ‘ANIMA’ showing a delicacy in the materials and using scale as a method of showing the vastness of the issue.
Stereotypically feminine colours and shapes are used as a footprint for what we feel comfortable talking about, vs things we can’t or are not allowed to say for fear of retaliation or suppression -the redacted lines. With current global events regarding certain files, and how as a society we refuse to believe women – it unfortunately took thousands of redacted lines for us to admit it has never been about protecting women or children.
ANIMA Part 1 explores the discrepancy of justice for victims of gender-based violence and is an active call for societal reform.
About the artist:
Anna Vidamour is a multidisciplinary installation artist whose work explores the complexities of the human condition through lived experience. She works across large-scale sculpture, film, performance, sound, and painting, rooted in a radical feminist lens and a commitment to social justice.
Drawing on Newton’s First Law of Inertia, she examines how trauma irreversibly alters the body and mind. Using repurposed materials, she creates biomorphic forms—mangled female organs, phallic petals, distorted bodies—reclaiming agency in the wake of abuse. Themes of memory, transformation, and the life–death–rebirth cycle are central.
Cover Image credit: Anna Vidamour, 2026
