This work was made in response to McEvoy’s time spend in a Dublin textile reprocessing plant and from discussions and interactions with the staff. This was a four year project and includes other video works, Off The Wall and Conveyor Belt.

Concept

McEvoy’s work at that time was to encourage an alternative reality by creating an awareness of the true scale in western developed society of the practice of consumption and of the reproductive value of products and materials. Through a systematic process of intervention of discarded familiar objects, products and materials, McEvoy created work that examined polarities of scale, large and small, as well as qualities of fragility and robustness. Through extracting fibres, filaments, strands and constituent parts of used objects, the re-formed work is a constructed re-presentation of the extant processes of consumerism, commodification and consumption. 

Processes of deconstruction are a primary focus of McEvoy’s work, as she delicately, skillfully, dismantles and reforms aesthetic objects of frail vulnerability imbuing them with strength. Her work incorporates textile, paper, plastic, print and video. Following this project McEvoy went on to explore themes of recurring deconstruction and/or re-presentation in relation to old buildings. See video entitled ALUCARD Code 2013 and Shine 2012.