FACT: Helen Anna Flanagan & Gavin Gayagoy
Date: 29.8.25 - 23.11.25
Time: All Day
Location: FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Discover two new artworks by Helen Anna Flanagan and Gavin Gayagoy. In this exhibition, both artists use the domestic setting as a way to navigate experiences of alienation through societal neglect and digital isolation.
Read the film transcript here: Burnt Toast (2025) [Transcript]
Gavin Gayagoy’s work, Doomscroll_1, explores our relationship with smartphones, focusing on the sensation of ‘doom-scrolling’ – compulsively consuming digital content, often to the detriment of mental health. Doom-scrolling often leaves people feeling trapped in an endless loop as they mindlessly switch between apps, losing track of time. Gavin utilises game design to examine how digital environments impact our emotions and, ultimately, our understanding of ourselves. His work addresses the paradox of being online – that it holds the potential to thrill and fear, offering freedom while also holding us back.
Our homes are full of ghosts – from our memories to digital presences that haunt us from our screens, drawing us into their spectral worlds and slowly building a sense of disconnection from those physically around us. In this exhibition, both artists use the domestic setting as a way to think about the technologies, social conditions and societal structures that create this strange loneliness in being connected.
Header image: Helen Anna Flanagan, Burnt Toast (2025). Photograph, courtesy of the artist.
