Thursday 28 May, 6.30pm

Join us for a special Curator’s Tour of our current exhibitions EX/IT: LIFT by artist Abbas Zahedi and The Artist’s Eye: Bushra Mustafa Dunne, as part of Dublin by Dusk.

For his exhibition, Zahedi presents a newly commissioned body of work that interrogates bureaucratic systems – administrative, religious, institutional, and militaristic. Through a series of sound sculptures, some of which sound alarms, whilst others reflect endless rhythms of manual labour or ritual practice; Zahedi explores the capacity of the gallery space to challenge dominant systems through dialogue and collective action.

The Artist’s Eye series asks those exhibiting in Gallery 1 to invite an artist of influence to present work in Gallery 2. In this instalment Abbas Zahedi has invited poet Bushra Mustafa Dunne to write and record a new poem. Evoking the Irish mourning tradition of keening, Dunne’s new poem weaves together personal narratives and reflections on militarism, memory, and grief, to imagine shared histories of sonic rituals and communal grieving.