Caoimhe Kelly

Using obsolete CRT televisions, early digital screens, looping performance footage, metronomic sound, and still imagery, my work explores the cyclical reality of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) through repetition, surveillance, and ritualised behaviour.

Influenced in part by the fragmented visual language of avant-garde film, the work moves through the four recurring stages of OCD - obsession, anxiety, compulsion, and temporary relief presenting them not as separate experiences, but as a continuous closed loop without resolution.

My work draws on the nature of analogue malfunction such as static, signal interference, and playback loops. The nature of the analogue TVs mirror OCD's thought patterns and the constant need for correction or certainty.

My work aims to externalise the internal cyclical structures of OCD where compulsive behaviour functions simultaneously as protection, punishment, and failed attempts of control. My work exposes the harsh reality of OCD as an inescapable cycle where relief exists only briefly before the cycle begins again never succeeding in resolution.