Soft Fiction Projects

Soft Fiction Projects is an artist run initiative founded in 2018 by artists Alessia Cargnelli and Emily McFarland.

Soft Fiction Projects is based in Northern Ireland and it is dedicated to produce digital and printed matter on film and artist moving image culture. The printed project acts as a forum for presenting new collaborations, artworks, research and writing from invited artists and contributors.  

Selected recent projects includes: Usually or Infrequently Indecent or Obscene, as part of ‘The Law is A White Dog’ curated by Sarah Browne, Tulca Visual Arts Festival, Galway 2020; MAKING SPACE, Residency, Public Programme and Exhibition, Guest Projects, London 2019; SHOP, residency and publication launch, PS2, Belfast 2019; URGENCIES, group show and public programme curated by Catherine Hemelryk, CCA Derry~Londonderry 2019; DORIS at Printing Plant, Publication launch and performative event, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam (NL) 2018.

Revisiting recent history in moving image practices, Soft Fiction Projects research focus is an exploration of underrepresented voices, oppositional histories, geopolitical narratives underpinned by intersectional feminist perspectives which challenge and reframe dominant hegemonic power structures.

For Gintlíocht, Soft Fiction Projects will install 100 A3 Risography prints in close proximity to the Ulster Folk Museum’s printers. These prints will feature archive material from The Linen Hall library, focusing on Women’s News and other printed material linked to intersectional feminist movements and housing rights in Belfast. In this way printing together the tradition of print as a mechanism for disseminating information.