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Remote Joy, Green on Red Gallery, 14 May–28 June 2020

Chris Hayes / July 9, 2020

In his article ‘Remote Viewing’, for the June 2020 issue of Art Monthly, Morgan Quaintance argued that the rush to produce online content during lockdown has resulted in ... Read More

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Áine McBride, work suite, mother’s tankstation, 21 February–21 April 2018

Claire Walsh / May 15, 2020

1 In ‘Botanical’, poet and critic Quinn Latimer outlines her fascination with what she describes as a trend in contemporary art for making work about, and featuring, tropical ... Read More

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You Are neither Here nor There

Declan Long / April 17, 2020

1 TEL AVIV TO RAMALLAH What is the purpose of your visit? Passport control, Ben Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv. Late-night, slo-mo queuing. Everyone is being quizzed at a strange, ... Read More

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Dennis Dinneen, Small Town Portraits, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 21 April–27 May 2017

Colin Graham / April 3, 2020

… Is there any emotion more deeply philosophical than the one we experience as we anxiously wait – beneath that rather diabolical red light which turns a glowing cigarette ... Read More

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Christopher Mahon, Couched, Project Arts Centre, 4 October–22 December 2018 / RGKS Cribs, 30 March 2019

Rosa Abbott / August 14, 2019

Christopher Mahon’s art practice could be described as sensual, shapeshifting, slippery, chameleonic, elusive, intimate, sociable. On the one hand, he carves fleeting moments ... Read More

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Looking For a Place to Call Home, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017

John Holten / February 22, 2019

When dwelling on the idea of home one tends to think of private space; to parse it further one could almost place home in opposition to public space. So it is surprising, and ... Read More

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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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