Multilingual Exhibition Tour – Czech, Arabic & English

Gallery Lates: Multilingual Exhibition Tour – Czech, Arabic & English
with artist Soňa Šmédková and Taïm Haimet

As part of the Gallery Lates programme, join Soňa Šmédková and Taïm Haimet for a unique multilingual guided tour of the exhibition UnWorlding by Patrick Hough.

Moving between Czech, Arabic and English, this shared tour considers how language shapes the ways we encounter art. Rather than offering direct translation, each language brings its own rhythm, nuance and perspective, creating a layered and collective experience of the exhibition.

Open to all, the tour invites participants to listen differently and to experience the exhibition through multiple linguistic and cultural lenses. No prior knowledge of any of the languages is required. The event will be particularly welcoming and enriching for Czech- and Arabic-speaking audiences.

About the Exhibition
UnWorlding explores wildness, the untamed, the feral and the unruly, not as chaos but as a force that resists control. Bringing together film, photography and sculptural installations incorporating readymade objects, the exhibition gathers figures and sites where this wildness persists: in landscapes shaped by colonial violence, in the unruly terrains of queer desire, and in forms of life that exceed the boundaries imposed by the human.

About the Artists
Taïm Haimet is a French-Syrian artist based in Galway. Coming from an Arab identity intertwined with the memory of colonialism, displacement and war, her work focuses on stories told from the point of view of ‘Otherness’: off-centre narratives in the Global Imperial context, as to who gets to tell the story of the world. Her work insists on grief as an act of re-humanization, restoration, and a rediscovery of the sacred value of the human experience.

She completed an MA in Creative practice in 2024, at the ATU Galway. Her work has been exhibited in IMMA (2023), An Gailearaí, Gweedore ( 2024) the Galway Arts Centre (2024), and Starling, Limerick (2025). Awards include 126 Gallery artist residency award 2023, the 2023 RDS Taylor Price Award, and the Galway Arts Centre Residency Award 2024. Her work has been supported by the Arts Council Agility award 2023 and Bursary award in 2026.

Soňa Šmédková is a Czech multidisciplinary artist and emerging curator based in Galway. Her practice explores questions of identity, perception and belonging, shaped by her Central European background and experiences of migration. Working across participatory and spatial formats, she engages with the nuances of language, memory and interpersonal connection, creating layered environments that reflect on shared and in-between spaces.

She holds an MA in Creative Practice from ATU Galway. Her artistic work has been presented internationally, including at Transmediale Berlin, the Goethe-Institut Dublin, and the European Parliament in Brussels. As an emerging curator, her recent projects include A Remix of Change (Galway International Arts Festival, 2022), Fissure (2023), and The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (2024) at Galway Arts Centre. In 2021, she was awarded an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and most recently received the Creative Practitioner Bursary from Galway City Council (2026).

This tour takes place as part of our late night programme “Gallery Lates” supported by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.

Feature image: courtesy Patrick Hough