Projects

Miguel Martin and Jennifer Mehigan have developed practices that engage materially and metaphorically with dissecting notions of wellness, anxiety, and care. Infused with the clumsily seductive languages of advertising, cult recruiting strategies, and self-help books, the two explore the manner in which technology functions as a mechanism for establishing and undoing personhood, and how it may be possible to occupy the spaces in between person-ness (life) and de-person-ness (death). Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

In a time where the categories of ‘human’ and ‘object’ are blurring visibly due to technological advances, McKeagney is pointing to a blurring that has always existed. Our category of human is malleable; driven, directed and redefined by the artefacts, objects, minerals and materials we have ever had at hand. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

“I make work about my own life, mainly figurative domestic scenes. I always want to present myself as accurately as possible. Throughout my life, I have been asked where I am from; to which I have always replied ʻLucanʼ.” Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

In the work exhibited in Realtime, Lewis draws on her experience of space and time at sea, the accounts of fellow marathon swimmers, and data gleaned from environmental and body-worn technology. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Gerry Balfe Smyth’s first solo exhibition Last Breath is a series of photograph’s documenting life in the south inner-city flats complex of St. Teresa’s Garden’s in Dublin’s Liberties area. Part of PhotoIreland Festival 2018.

“The visual and architectural apparatus of the Church is the embodiment of Catholic doctrine; promulgating the notion that one must submit oneself entirely, body and soul, to be a ‘good’ Catholic.” Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Pallas Projects are happy to once again take part as a partner platform for the biannual Future Generation Art Prize – the only prize for the young generation of artists with a global dimension and guided by an open, free, and democratic application process.

Chrome Dreams begins with a sculpture which is based around a sheet of ArtGlass™. This completely clear glass acts an invisible platform for a variety of reflective elements. This portable sculpture was brought to a forest in Ballyedmonduff (Dublin Mountains) where it was photographed in a variety of positions. Part of our 2018 Artist-Initiated Projects programme.

Artist-Initiated Projects at Pallas Projects/Studios is an open-submission, annual gallery programme of 12 x 2-week exhibitions taking place between April and November 2018.

As part of Israeli Apartheid Week 2018, the Dublin branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign invite you to an exhibition featuring the photography of Palestinian photojournalist and film-maker Mohammad Alazza.

Oscar Fouz López's most recent work is influenced by the life of Alexander von Humboldt, an 18th Century German scientist, geographer and explorer. Humboldt traveled the world, visiting countries as diverse as the U.S., Peru and Russia, observing and describing their landscapes, and scientifically analyzing nature.

Pat Byrne's practice explores superstitions and folklore as he takes mythological humanoids and fairies and attempts to portray them in a more realistic and contemporary fashion through oil paintings, wanting to render them as somebody who could possibly pass us by on the street.