dani penhaligan

Dani Penhaligan works in multiple mediums and disciplines. With a conceptual approach, Penhaligan attempts to increase the reactive dynamic between audience and art by objectifying personal conscience.

Penhaligan creates situations in which subject is altered or detached from their natural function. By applying new context, reactions are instigated.

Her works are saturated with truisms, mental inertia and bad jokes.

It challenges the binaries we continually reconstruct between Self and Other, between our own ‘cannibal’ and ‘civilized’ selves. Committing commentary on the effects of social decay over recent times.

Dani directly responds to the surrounding environment. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context.

By parodying social decay, exaggerating formal aspects of contemporary society, she makes works that may be self-reflecting. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they are subversive and political but always a conscious critique on society.