At the Return Gallery
With-Hold forms part of artist Padraig Cunningham’s 2019 thesis submission for the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World in the School of Visual Culture at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin.
The exhibition at the Goethe-Institut,
With-Hold proposes a series of intervals, each one based on a particular site: firstly the Goethe-Institut itself and its role as instigator as a place to think and explore, and how it along with the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World have etched a series of intersecting possibilities for education, theory and making; secondly, Kesh Caves in Sligo and the folklore narrative the cave as a portal, a primordial site of consciousness, a place to enter and a time to be-in; and thirdly, the tiny Claggan Island in Co. Mayo that is just about held onto the mainland by a small sandbank. The film explores the cliche of the cave while an accompanying publication speculates on the island’s precarious position and the opposing forces that keep it in place.
The work is presented as a series of intervals, embedded in the philosophy of Deleuze and his reconsideration of temporality through cinema and image-making.
An embodiment of thought in-time or sub-time where Art as a quasi object, a portal, is unfixed and in transit.
An event.
Something to be apprehended rather than held counter too.
Opening
20 September 2019, 6:30-9:00 pm
in the presence of the artist
Padraig Cunningham's
With-Hold is part of
"Common Denominator: Art and the Contemporary World" at the Goethe-Institut, a two-year programme in the Return Gallery. Through exhibitions, seminars, discussions and more, it interrogates what it means now to speak of political solidarity, civic standards or even aesthetic values.
"Common Denominator" is curated by Art in the Contemporary World, a theory-practice postgraduate MA/MFA programme at the School of Visual Culture, National College of Art and Design, Dublin.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Irland
Opening Hours of The Return Gallery
Monday-Thursday 10:00 am - 09:00 pm
Friday 10:00 am - 05:30 pm
Saturday 10:00 am - 1:30 pm (except bank holiday weekends)
Please note that due to the protected structure of the Georgian building, the gallery is not wheelchair accessible
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