As part of the FAMILY LINES PROJECT, The Douglas Hyde is delighted to introduce the first of a Billboard Series displaying artworks by Alice Rekab. From 4 November 2021 for three weeks the artwork Isatu at Rest in Cork (2021) will be presented on ten billboards across nine sites within Cork City.
As Alice Rekab states “Isatu at Rest in Cork (2021) and Isatu Chills (2021) in Dublin are reconfigurations of a digital drawing and collage I made using an image of my grandmother Isatu Kalokoh resting on her sofa playing Solitaire in her apartment in Freetown in the 1960s, this image is layered with a photograph of Sierra Leonean women carding cotton to make Country Cloth. Together this work is a meditation on feminised labour, domestic solitude, passing time, and rest as a form of resistance.”
Using an already socially-accepted visual form – such as the public billboard – allows Alice Rekab to subtly communicate to people outside of the gallery space, and within the environment of daily life in the city. These interventions centre around how Black-Irish experience of place can be shared and elevated through image-making and presentation. With a focus on bringing the artworks to areas where black and African diaspora communities make up significant portion of the audience demographic, creating moments of recognition and seeing oneself in places not usually allocated for that purpose.
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a new music session where artist Bill Harris will host an experimental electronic dance night as part of our First Thursday series. Through this new series of late openings, the gallery becomes a space for hosting unexpected, experimental practices across multiple artforms from live music and expanded cinema […]
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a new music session with music assemble Kirkos as part of our First Thursday series. Through this new series of late openings, the gallery becomes a space for hosting unexpected, experimental practices across multiple artforms from live music and expanded cinema to performance and spoken word. Join us each […]
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present a new performance by artist Isadora Epstein as part of our First Thursday series. Through this new series of late openings, the gallery becomes a space for hosting unexpected, experimental practices across multiple artforms from live music and expanded cinema to performance and spoken word. Join us each First […]
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share details of this upcoming talk by Dr John Bosco Conama on the history of Irish Sign Language in the context of Amanda Coogan’s Freude! Freude! project. An interpreter will be present at this talk to provide Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation. Booking required. Please use the link on this page to […]
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to present an Artist Talk where artist Amanda Coogan will be joined in conversation by Dr Georgina Jackson, Director at The Douglas Hyde, to discuss the many aspects of Coogan’s Freude! Freude! project. An interpreter will be present at this talk to provide Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpretation. Booking required. Please use the […]
Open House is an annual three-day festival of architecture, opening up usually inaccessible architectural treasures to the public with a programme of tours and talks. A renowned example of Brutalist architecture, The Douglas Hyde Gallery will participate in Open House 2023 with a series of tours. Join us on 14 and 15 October 2023 for […]
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