Neither Here Or There: Contemporary Irish

Fri, 12 Apr 2013
19:00-23:00

On view
12 Apr-5 May 2013

Neither Here Or There: Contemporary Irish

Mark Curran, Benji De Burca,  Maurice Doherty, David Hedderman, Jane Hughes, Sophie Iremonger, Eoin Llewllyn, Lifeloop, Enda O’Donoghue, David O’Kan

This exhibition title 'NEITHER HERE NOR THERE’ suggests a world of 'in-betweens'. Each of the 10 artists selected for this show in their own way, go beyond a binary form of understanding, addressing issues of history, tradition, uncertain spaces, meaning and intimacy. Binary models infuse our thinking at every level in society, as life is constantly split into various dichotomies of rich/poor, traditional/contemporary, animal/human, and so on ad infinitum. This method of categorization seems to be the very foundation of an eschewed world view that produces an entire wasteland of disregarded in-betweens. The artists selected for this exhibition challenge these polarities in new and subtle ways.

Weekly events:

19.4 -- Reading by Alan Cunningham from his debut novella, Count from Zero to One Hundred, published by Penned in the Margins (London)
14.4 and 21.4 --Curators talks by Jane Hughes and Enda O'Donoghue
--05.05 Live performance by Silences (Tom O’Doherty and Kata Kovács) on at the Embassy of Ireland.