Trinity

2024 · Single-channel video performance


Black-and-white still from Trinity, showing Aishling Muller seated between two curtained windows, with layered figures appearing within the room.

Trinity is the culmination of more than ten years of self-portraiture and performance-based practice. Across this period, three recurring figures emerged within Muller’s work, informed by Jungian ideas of ego, conscious self and unconscious.


Appearing across performances, photographs and durational works, the figures became a recurring symbolic structure through which questions of identity, perception and inner experience were explored.


Following a period of reorientation beginning in 2022, bringing the three recurring figures together became significant both within the practice and within Muller’s evolving understanding of self. Trinity does not present this convergence as resolution, but as integration: previously separate symbolic aspects brought into relation before the practice moves into a new phase.


Muller arrived at the residency with all three costumes and a clear intention to bring the figures together, while leaving the form of that convergence open to the live process.


Trinity was selected alongside two photographs from Auryn: Full Circle for the Westmeath Artists’ Award exhibition, Mythologies of the Personal and the Land, at Luan Gallery, 2025–26. Aishling Muller received a joint Second Award in 2025 for the selected works collectively. The work was also screened as part of the inaugural Crow Gallery launch at Westival Festival in Westport in 2025, a community arts initiative supporting artists living with disability. Trinity was screened as part of Culture Night Late at SIRIUS Arts Centre, Cobh, in 2026.


Full screening file, installation stills and further documentation available on request.


Trinity, 2024

Single-channel digital video

Black and white with sound

Duration: 7:19

Developed during a residency at Live Art Ireland, 2024