Kim Haughton’s new installations highlights the horror and endurance of abuse victims
THERE is a picture in Kim Haughton’s In Plain Sight exhibition of Dave Dineen standing outside the house he grew up in Ballyphehane, Cork. The house is falling into disrepair. One of its windows is boarded up. Its pathway is overrun with moss. It looks bleak.
When Dineen was growing up, however, the house was always in good nick — the curtains were clean, the walls were painted. In the photograph, Dineen is wearing a Superman T-shirt. He must have a light heart, you’d think. There is no indication of the unspeakable horrors he endured in the house behind him.
