Family Ties Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC

Family Ties has the subtitle ‘relatives and relationships in art’.

The first piece one encounters on ascending the gallery stairs is Nevin Aladag’s ‘Family Portrait’, a group of five, wall-mounted mirrors. Each is of a different height and width, and none is a comfortable fit, which sums up how most people feel about their role within the family.

The idea of not fitting in is teased out in Eula Vassdosela’s ‘Family Ties’, a series of photographs of families at odds with their shadows.