06/12/23—25/01/24
Periodical Review 14—A Language to Shout In
Preview:
6–8pm Friday 6th December 2024
Exhibition runs:
7th December 2024 – 25th January 2025
Selected by Miguel Amado, Valeria Ceregini, Mark Cullen & Gavin Murphy
Basil Al-Rawi, Kian Benson Bailes, Ceara Conway, Sarah Durcan, Farouk858, Shane Hynan, Sarah Long, Samir Mahmood, Riki Matsuda, Yvonne McGuinness, NAMACO (Han Hogan and Donal Fullam), Yuri Pattison, Amanda Rice, Sonia Shiel, Laura Skehan, Pádraig Spillane, Frank Sweeney, Anne Tallentire, Kathy Tynan, Amna Walayat
Essay by Diana Bamimeke (Read online here)
“The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.”
– Michel Foucault
Chapter 1, ‘The Unities of Discourse’
The Archaeology of Knowledge, 1969
Periodical Review (2011–ongoing) is a long-running curatorial project which sets out to consider, revisit and review current movements within contemporary art practices from around Ireland. Intended as a space for critical appraisal and consolidation of ideas and knowledge, the aim through each subsequent edition is to facilitate and encourage new readings, collaboration, crossover and debate. Not a group exhibition per se, Periodical Review is a discursive action, with the gallery presented as a journal, a magazine-like layout of artworks in dialogue, the field talking to itself.
With each iteration PP/S invites two peers – curators, artists, writers, educators – to consider the artworks, exhibitions and projects they encounter over the course of a year and then nominate what was for them, significant practices, works, activity, moments, selected via an editorial process. Within this exhibition framework – a constantly shifting series of subjective viewpoints and positions (geographical, personal, political, institutional) – curatorial unity cannot be prescribed, threads or movements can only occur.
In looking at self-organised exhibitions, off-site, artist-led and independent projects, commercial galleries, museum shows, performances and publications, Periodical Review looks to present the complex and heterogeneous span of visual art in Ireland, creating dialogue and critical reflection amongst peers and between practices, to help develop and engage Irish contemporary art as a whole. In doing this, it can also act as an accessible survey of contemporary art, expanding access to and experience of new art practices from around Ireland to a wider audience.
In addition to curator’s texts which provide context for their selections, the exhibition is accompanied by an essay commissioned in collaboration with Paper Visual Art Journal. The PPS/PVA Visual Art Writing Commission is intended to further discourse on the contemporary moment in visual art in Ireland, while also building into a record of art practice, projects, and concepts over time.
Essay: Paper Visual Art Journal
Events
Opening Event
Friday 6th, 6:30 pm
Grief Spell performance by Ceara Conway
Grief Spell is a vocal/performance piece inspired by the artist's experience of grief and the universal experience of grieving. Drawing upon the Norse tradition of naming people who were grieving 'cinderbiters'. When members of the community, unable to participate in the usual activities of "normal life" would sit by the hearth, over time their clothes, feet and hands would become stained by ashes. The ashes were a visual symbol to the rest of the community that they were to be left alone, to be treated more gently, during this 'grief spell'. Grief Spell is an exploration of an instructional lament for living.
Closing Event
Saturday 25th 2025, 2 pm
Performance by Sarah long followed by an in-conversation with Miguel Amado
W/w is a performance by artist and writer Sarah Long. It is based on Long's debut novella of the same title, published by bloomers in 2024, and incorporates spoken word, sound and video elements. W/w is a piece of autofiction that speculatively reflects on the art historical notion of the grid alongside different reverberations of Irish culture, including Roy Keane and the position of women in the Irish constitution.
School visits:
A dedicated schools visit programme takes place during the run of the exhibition, covering both primary and secondary level. If your school would like to take part, or for more info, please contact: info@pallasprojects.org
Biographies:
Miguel Amado is a curator and critic, and director of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork. His practice draws from critical theory towards examining social themes through a civic lens, and involves producing new work via collaborations with artists and communities. A through line of his undertakings involves exploring alternatives to ‘master’ aesthetic models and mainstream narratives dominated by art history and the art market, with a special focus on practices by subalternised artists, whether through class or identity. Amado’s career spans twenty-five years, and includes exhibition making, commissioning, collection development, public programming, editing and writing. He has held directorships and curatorial roles at Cork Printmakers; Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England; Tate St Ives, England; Abrons Arts Center, New York; Rhizome at the New Museum, New York; Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal; and the Portuguese Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale. He holds an MA in curating from the Royal College of Art, London.
Pallas Projects/Studios (founded 1996) is a not-for-profit artist-run organisation dedicated to the facilitation of artistic production and discourse, via the provision of affordable artists studios in Dublin's city centre, and a programme of curated projects. Pallas Projects collaborates with artists, curators and writers to engage and develop Irish contemporary art, through solo and group projects with a focus on emerging and mid-career artists; and exchanges and collaborations with artists’ groups, art organisations and institutions around Ireland and abroad. PP/S addresses the necessity of providing space for artistic production and exhibition, and foregrounds the role of contemporary art as a constant agent of discourse and social transformation, expressed through a variety of spaces, exchanges, off-site projects, exhibitions, talks, education, resource programmes, and publications. PP/S also engages in research, advocacy to support and promote the value of cultural resources in the community, studio provision, and artist-run practices, such as the major research and publishing project Artist-Run Europe.
Valeria Ceregini is an Italian Irish-based art historian and visual arts curator. Her work is dedicated to supporting and championing Irish artists, and she has curated numerous national and international premieres. She produces collaborative sociocultural projects with a curatorial interest in ecology, post-humanism, and trans-cultural dialogues. Her curatorial practice spans collaborations with leading international institutions, artists, and cultural organisations through exhibitions, publications, workshops, and talks. Some of her most recent projects include curating How It’s Made, an eco-festival in Balbriggan, Co. Dublin (Sept 2023); Living through Paint(ing), a solo show by Richard Gorman at Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (March-Aug 2023) and Museums of Genoa (Italy, Jan-June 2024); The Symphony of the Nowhere Belly - Prototypes for Cyborgs by Mark Cullen at Culterim Galerie, Berlin, as part of Zeitgeist Irland24; and Towards Super-Connection at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Villa Croce, Genoa (Jan-March 2022).
Accessibility
Video works contain flashing lights.
One sculptural piece consists of a fluorescent light, moving apparatus and sudden bell sounds.
There is ambient noise from 2 video works.
Lighting consists of soft spots with one bay of fluorescents.
Gallery hours
12–6pm, Wednesday*–Saturday
7th December 2024 – 25th January 2025
Closed from 22nd December – reopens 8th January
Please note: Wednesdays are dedicated masked days, masks are available from gallery staff