(Dublin,1972) works with video, installation and performance art. Her work often navigates through conceptions of reality and their corresponding appearances in the outside world. Trained in mathematics, Bea McMahon employs versions and associations of mathematics and physics that play with distinctions between objects, space and time, and symbols while resonating with a poetic form of agency between non-speaking beings and the world. Recent projects include performances Aftermath/Ghost in Silence at Cave Gallery, Tokyo (2018); On Alterity, FLAM VII, Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam (2017); Open Avond(S), De Appel, Amsterdam (2017); Luser Story, International Day of Brud, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2016); Umstuelpung, The XII Baltic Triennial, Vilnius (2015); Evil under the Sun, Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli (2013). Solo exhibitions include: Floppy Forest, Treignac Projet, Treignac (2021); Under Bat Hill, W139, Amsterdam (2021); Rank, Billytown, Den Haag (2017); BOM, CCA Derry, London (2015); Cover, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (2014); Root, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (2012); Warp and Woof, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow (2011); Trinity, Flat Time House, London (2011). She has undertaken residencies at Flattime House, London, ACC Gwangju, Korea; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam and Via Farini, Milan. She is in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and FRAC Midi-Pyrenees.