Unrequited Hatred
Curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó CuirrínThe Shed, Galway Docks
11th - 25th August Opening reception; Friday August 10th, 7pm
Opening Hours; Wednesday to Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Featuring work by: Darren Barrett, Alan Bulfin, Daniel Cunniffe, Terence Erraught, Nevan Lahart, Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, Jeroen Van Dooren, Kees van Lankveld, Francis Quinn.
'Play is nothing if nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play'
Georges Bataille
Unrequited Hatred will
be a diverse and multi-faceted constellation of work, that is
representative of a shared attitude or stance towards our artistic
practice. This attitude manifests itself in the form of a collective
desire to create work that is provocative, energetic, assertive and that
is indifferent towards the increasing commercialisation of the
contemporary art world.
Thematically,
the exhibition will confront the obsession with utilising or killing
time efficiently within the present consumerist society. This obsession
filters itself through the mediums of technological devices such as
television, computers, the internet and mobile phones. Champions of
communicative technology posit that this free flow of information has
helped liberate the role of the individual within Western society.
However a convincing argument could be made that precisely the opposite
has occurred; namely that the constant bombardment of information and
visual stimuli has had the effect of debilitating the individuals
capacity to think and reflect, contributing to the pervading sense of
ennui and lethargy that characterises the postmodernist epoch.
The exhibition Unrequited Hatred will respond to, and attempt to transcend the present condition. In this project the artists will attempt to carve up the exhibition space as an independent site from this culture of passivity. By intermixing a variety of different materials and sources, the objective will be to create work that is allusive and rich in connotations, that resists constrictive judgement and easy classification. The processes of play and humour will be used to provoke; but also to induce more expansive methods of thinking and creating. In the final instance, while the project will ultimately remain firmly rooted within the fabric of the contemporary landscape, we will nonetheless strive to present to the viewer something of the disavowed and fantastical desires that lurk beyond the façade of everyday life
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