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Irish artist Niamh McCann on her exhibition ‘Hairline Crack’

By France24
03 February 2023   |   5:34 pm
It's sometimes said that art records what the history books cannot, giving us a sense of how it may have felt to live through a particular moment in time. It also allows us to question the official narrative of events.

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