Projects

Paper Work explores the primacy of paper as a fundamental medium, a celebration at the core of the transformative essence of artistic production, and of the possibilities inherent in the simplest medium, intrinsic as it is to the facilitation of expansive contemporary artistic concepts.

The exhibition Of Men and Mountains takes as its starting point the idea of human struggle and endeavor.

Skip Roll Bump Scratch features video, photography and mechanical sculpture, including a new kinetic installation consisting of two mobilised record players both playing the same record.

Hito Steyerl’s 2007 film Lovely Andrea follows the artist as she returns to Japan, where she briefly worked in the 80s as a bondage model under the assumed name Andrea, to search for a photograph of herself. In Resonating Surfaces Manon de Boer recorded and transcribed memories of São Paulo from people who grew up in São Paulo and now live in Europe.

In the spirit of absurd theatre, Situation continues O’Kennedy’s grappling with tensions resulting from struggle, striving and purposefulness in the face of a seemingly absurd and random world.

Where the map of this world ends, that’s where the map of Timbuktu begins…” This curated exhibition will feature a selection of sought-after artists from Ireland and beyond.

I Live in the Cracks in the Walls featured a constructed corridor 50ft x 2.5ft x 7ft, a constructed room 8ft x 8ft x 7ft with ornately designed wallpaper, a myriad of dressmaking pins map the wallpaper in patches forming dense 3D structures of the 2D design.

Arise! ye starvelings… is the opening line of the rallying song the Internationale, the anthem used as an expression of allegiance to revolutionary ideals. The appropriation and re-contextualising of revolutionary and political imagery and ideas is a tactic used by artists to comment on the present geopolitical climate, creating a link between the past and the present.

Emerging art collective, Pallasades, present their first collaborative project; a site-specific installation that combines light with structure and shape, directing human responses to spatial presence.

O’Brien looks to the work of Romantic painters, namely Caspar David Friedrich and W.M Turner: “the non-scientific nature of their work is relevant to me, when challenging the depiction of things quite… scientific”.

Lalor’s work contains video, installation, poster/text, maquette building, and painting in multiples (the democratic paintings series), which reveal a linear landscape to the expense of the singular image.