Geographies of Grief—Mariya Hoyin

Rua Red is a contemporary art space housing two galleries, a theatre/cinema, a dance studio, a conference room, a digital media suite, recording facilities, music rooms, workshop areas, artist’s studios, office space and a café.

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Join us for 'Geographies of Grief' by Mariya Hoyin, as part of Becoming Tallaght Performance Arts Festival 2025.

Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre

Becoming Tallaght

Becoming Tallaght Performance Arts Festival 2025

13:00—14:00, Thursday, 25 SeptemberDuration: 60 minutesLocation: The Tallaght X sculpture in Library Square In exploring the history of the name Tallaght, I discovered its Old Irish roots, meaning “a place of burial” or “a high grave.” Its etymology is stark: one part linked to death, contagion, and impurity; the other to stones, monuments, and remembrance. These weighty, archetypal associations connect deeply with my reflections on the war in Ukraine; now in its eleventh year, including seven years of hybrid conflict and over three years of full-scale invasion. This war is about loss and suffering, about bodies that no longer breathe and hearts that struggle to trust. It is about scars — visible and invisible — etched into the body of a nation, into memory, language, and the architecture of silence.My performance seeks to bring together the visible and the invisible, to show how war imprints itself on cities and on the human body. It lingers in the cracks of buildings, in inner fractures, in memories that disturb sleep, and in silence that echoes across generations. This silence is not emptiness, but the roar of pain without words. Performance as memory. An archaeology of suffering. Ecocide. The ethics of presence. About Mariya HoyinMariya Hoyin (Ukraine, 1982) is an artist working across digital photography, and analog, performance, video, collage, and graphic media. She graduated from the Lviv National Academy of Arts. Since the beginning of the full-scale russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, she has been creating an ongoing daily photography art project titled Diary in Times of War. The project has continued for over three years and will be sustained until the war ends. As a deeply personal ritual, Mariya marks eachanniversary of the war’s outbreak by tattooing a new number onto her forearm—an act of remembrance and resilience.