Schema of a Ghost

About the exhibition:

Schema of a Ghost brings together a body of work based on deeply personal but simultaneously universal experiences of bereavement, premonitions, damaged dreams, and goodbyes. Joan Alexander’s work evokes things that connect us to an absence, but are hard to hold onto, such as ghost stories, starscapes and ephemeral, transitory, or seasonal natural phenomena. 

Working through photography, text, film and installations composed of experiential combinations of organic and residual materials, her work explores our experience of time and finitude, attempting to make manifest absence, the vastness of grief and mourning, and the cycles of life, death and cosmological time that we exist within. 

On Wednesday 19 February, from 12pm, Joan will be inviting participants to the PS2 Project Space, which she will turn into an open studio, to contribute their own stories about ghosts, traces, loss, and the passage of time. 

About the artist:

Joan Alexander is an artist based on the North coast of Northern Ireland. She is a current PhD candidate at Belfast School of Art. She studied Philosophy at Queens University of Belfast and the Institute of Philosophy KU Leuven, before completing her Masters in photography at University of Brighton. Her work has been supported by Arts Council NI and exhibited internationally. She is currently the recipient of an Artists Network Bursary 2023. In Autumn 2023, she undertook a residency at Digital Arts Studios. Exhibitions include Fast/Slow/Fast, CCA Derry~Londonderry; Through the Looking Glass, Lumen Collective, London; and Proof of Ghosts, Belfast Exposed and Brighton Photo Fringe 2023.

Visit Joan's website. 

 PS² is supported by Belfast City Council and The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and project funding from Belfast City Council