Via is a collaborative artist-led initiative, created to explore through art, issues surrounding history, culture and art practice within the context of the changing identity of Dublin city. Previously Via has facilitated artists to produce innovative works and activities within this context, however this is the first time that the three founding members of Via, Susan Gogan, Sarah O’Toole and Sally Timmons, have exhibited together as Via’s core group.

Biographies:

Susan Gogan uses large-scale photographic works to examine our relationships with the urban and suburban spatial environments within which we live, work and communicate with each other. Her photographic piece that forms part of the final Pallas Heights show (dis)places an idealised cinematic representation of youth (in the form of Lolita) within an industrial space, disrupting our preconceived notion of where she belongs. A lighting installation designed specifically for this exhibition, creates gaps in the symbolic surface of the image, extending it into 3-dimensional space.

Sally Timmons will document her experience of the last days of Sean Tracey House by ‘drawing’ the view from the top floor of the soon to be demolished building. By converting the top floor bedroom into a working Camera Obscura, the artist has constructed a simple optical tool as an aid to her drawing within which the viewer will experience the transferring of light through a pinhole in the form of a projected inverted image. Prior to the building’s demise Timmons will continue to work on the ‘living drawings’ inside the darkened space on Thursdays and Saturdays during the exhibition, throughout March and April.

Sarah O’Toole ‘House’ allows for thought on universal ideas of the home while also interacting with the physical surroundings of the home it is situated in. ‘Curtain’ both interacts and makes reference to the home recalling times past in a now vacant place.