19/06/2026
PS2 is pleased to announce a collaboration with SIRIUS Arts Centre in Cobh towards an exhibition with artist Eunice Pais, supported by the Gulbenkian Exhibitions Fund in its inaugural edition.
The Gulbenkian Exhibitions Fund assists with the presentation of art from Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries in the United Kingdom. Pais is a Portuguese Mozambican practitioner based in Porto, Portugal. PS2 and SIRIUS are jointly organising a commission, displays in each gallery, and a residency and an event series across both venues.
Eunice’s practice spans moving image, photography, sound, and sculpture, and explores the intersections of ecology, labour, belonging, and counter-coloniality. Through research-based and speculative approaches, she addresses the relationships among human and more-than-human worlds through the lenses of extractivism and inherited ways of producing knowledge.
Eunice’s exhibition approaches the North Atlantic as a living and opaque archive: a space of becoming where nature, memory, and dissidence remain in continuous flux. It centres on a new film, Sargassum, alongside existing works, all of which examine kelp as a connective body between the coastal areas of Apúlia, in northern Portugal, Belfast, and Cobh.
PS2 and SIRIUS have been collaborating on strategic development and programming, and this project strengthens their mutual commitment to a civic-oriented approach to art.
The project is one of seven funded by this year’s Gulbenkian Exhibitions Fund. Other organisations include Chapter, Cardiff; Jali Collective, Edinburgh; Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham; Trinity Community Arts, Bristol; Food Museum, Stowmarket; and Nottingham Contemporary.
Image description: Artist Eunice Pais looks into the camera.
PS² Belfast
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Cork County Council
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon