SWAB BARCELONA INDEPENDENT ART FAIR 2026
Luke van Gelderen, Lana May Fleming & Frances Hennigan
October 8 - 11
Palau Victòria Eugènia, Barcelona

Temporary Address will present new works by Irish artists Luke van Gelderen, Frances Hennigan, and Lana May Fleming at the SWAB Independent Art Fair in Barcelona, 2026. Across painting, print, and sculpture, the artists explore how identity is constructed, performed, and circulated online, examining tensions between authenticity and artifice, gender and identity cultures online.

Luke van Gelderen brings imagery from Justin Bieber’s paparazzi interactions into his image-transfer works, exploring vulnerability, performance, and contemporary masculinity. Frances Hennigan’s White Metal series employs celebrity portraiture and silver-inlaid phrases to examine the standardisation of emotion and political language for algorithmic circulation. Lana May Fleming’s plaything series presents the pig-fluencer as a hybrid of fashion doll, animal, and digital persona, questioning the boundaries between the physical body and its online image.

Together, the works consider identity as something continually shaped through visibility, performance, modification, and circulation.

biographies:

Luke van Gelderen is an artist and filmmaker based between Dublin and Berlin. His practice encompasses film, sculpture and installation employing appropriation and found materials to investigate contemporary online identity. His work constructs immersive environments that interweave themes of trauma, adolescence, authenticity, and performance, exploring how contemporary subjectivity is shaped by increasingly unstable social, technological, and environmental contexts. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Kostka Gallery, MeetFactory, Prague (2027); Project Art’s Centre, Dublin (2027); Arca Futuris, Hamburg (2027); Callie’s, Berlin (2026); Photo Museum Ireland (2026); FACT, Liverpool (2026); PAF Olomouc (2025); Irish Museum of Modern Art (2025); TRIBECA Gallery, NYC (2025); SEAGER, London (2025); Transmediale, Berlin (2024); Palazzo Bronzo, Genoa (2024); Kunsthaus Zurich (2024); Kasseler Dokfest (2024); and Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2024).

Frances Hennigan is an Irish visual artist based in Essen, DE. Her practice explores collective fantasies and the contemporary rituals through which people seek to transcend themselves, pursuing belonging, significance and moral certainty through aesthetic forms. Hennigan’s works approach fandom, activism and radicalisation as different expressions of the same longing. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Afterimages’, Märkisches Museum, Witten, DE (2026); ‘The Story Writes Itself’ Märkisches Museum, Witten, DE (2026); ‘Kunstspur Essen’ Kreativ Quartier Ateliers, Essen, DE (2026); ‘Mimikry’ Neuland Projektraum, Bochum, DE (2025); ’’DOXSRUHR’ Zanke, Bochum, DE (2025); ‘I feel how my eye turns’ Ballyshannon Arts Centre, Donegal, IRE, (2025); ‘Fem Festival’ Kulturamt Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt, DE, (2025); ‘Real’ B63, Witten, DE (2024).

Lana May Fleming is a visual artist based in Dublin, her multidisciplinary practice examines the societal pressures that drive individuals to physically and digitally alter their bodies. Utilising performance through video the work explores themes of identity, autonomy and the impact of ever evolving beauty standards. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: ‘OUTLET’, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2026), FACT, Liverpool (2026), ‘Real’ B63, Witten, (2024), ‘Pallas for Palestine’, The Digital Hub, Dublin (2024), ‘LOCKJAW’, Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin (2023), ‘FAKEBODY’, Platform Arts, Belfast (2023), ‘MILF (Mother I’d Like to Eat)’, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen (2022). Solo include: ‘Watering Hole’ Dún Loaghaire Institute of Visual Arts, Dublin (2022), meatclown, aerial, Bergen (2022).