22 February–26 May 2025
De La Warr Pavilion is pleased to present Ssh Ow, the first major solo exhibition in a UK public gallery in a decade by Jaki Irvine. Irvine uses video, installation, photography, music composition and writing to explore the complex ways we imagine ourselves and the world around us, a process which, for Irvine, has both philosophical and political implications. Overheard conversations and everyday incidents, casually observed, often form the starting point for Irvine’s work. She weaves these real events into fictions, making films and videos that reflect on the fragmented, mysterious and often absurd nature of the human condition.
Irvine’s project at DLWP includes a newly commissioned immersive live work, SHWO EM TEH WAY OT GO HMOE, to be presented in the auditorium on 24 May 2025. This performance features a live graphic score paired with musical improvisation based on the song Show Me the Way to Go Home (1925), famously remembered as a sea shanty from the film Jaws (1975).
Find out more via the De La Warr Pavilion website
