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Doireann O’Malley, Prototypes, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 22 June – 14 October 2018

Thomas Butler / December 13, 2018

‘He who sees is a cunt,’ Jean-François Lyotard remarked on observing Marcel Duchamp’s voyeuristic Étant donnés (1946–66).[1] In Duchamp’s enigmatic work, recalling ... Read More

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Fred Wilson, Afro Kismet, Pace Gallery, London

Kevin Brazil / June 5, 2018

At the centre of Fred Wilson’s exhibition Afro Kismet at Pace Gallery in London, a Yoruba Gelede mask is placed on a pedestal between two tiled walls covered in azure Arabic ... Read More

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Ciarán Murphy, Plainsight, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam

John Gayer / May 8, 2018

The compelling nature of Ciarán Murphy’s work hit me at the moment it first caught my eye. That occurred in 2009 when I stopped in to view March, the solo exhibition presented ... Read More

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elsewhere, CIT Wandesford Quay and Elizabeth Fort, Cork

Sarah Kelleher / July 31, 2017

elsewhere was an expansive and ambitious group show, thoughtfully curated by Helen Farrell, that included work by selected members of the Backwater Artists Studios, in Cork. ... Read More

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Anri Sala, Take Over, Esther Schipper, Berlin

Martin Herbert / June 28, 2017

When music manifests in Anri Sala’s art, it’s never just music. For an artist who was born in the mid-’70s, grew up under Communism in Albania, and typically uses sound ... Read More

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Joachim Koester, In the Face of Overwhelming Forces, Camden Arts Centre, London

Ruth Hogan / May 10, 2017

Nature creates similarities. One need only think of mimicry. The highest capacity for producing similarities, however, is man’s. His gift of seeing resemblances is nothing ... Read More

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Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, Ormston House, Limerick

Rebecca O'Dwyer / April 26, 2017

In his 2010 book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr describes cartography as one early example of an ‘intellectual’ technology.[1] With the ... Read More

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Ian Wilson, Hanne Lippard, Adam Pendleton, and Paul Elliman, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Adrian Duncan / April 9, 2017

This first exhibition at the newly revamped KW Institute for Contemporary Art, curated by incoming director Krist Gruijthuijsen, is an expansive and coherent presentation of ... Read More

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Yuri Pattison, sunset provision, mother’s tankstation limited

Aidan Kelly Murphy / March 27, 2017

In sunset provision at mother’s tankstation limited, Yuri Pattison expands on concepts previously raised in his 2016 Chisenhale Gallery show, user, space, an exhibition that ... Read More

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Stephen Brandes, Parc du Souvenir, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin

Nathan O'Donnell / March 12, 2017

In 1892, Sir Patrick Geddes opened what must be among the first museums of urban planning in the world, in an observatory housing a camera obscura on the Royal Mile, next to ... Read More

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