Project Arts Centre presents The Forgotten Works, an exhibition on view 24 August–27 October 2012.
Black, bright, amorphous, Ruth E. Lyons‘ major new commission, The Forgotten Works, appears to pull and push the facade of Project Arts Centre. A shape-shifter by day, an imploding mass by night, the large-scale construction creeps across the building, moving in a disarray of bitumen-coated struts from the balcony towards the pedestrian street below. This public installation is part-sculpture, part-performance, harnessing an incidental audience. In constant flux, The Forgotten Works shifts as darkness falls, its density both encasing and emitting light from within its depths.
Ruth E. Lyons’ new installation is curated by Tessa Giblin, commissioned and produced by Project Arts Centre, and generously supported by a Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Project Arts Centre is a multidisciplinary arts centre in the heart of Dublin, Ireland. The visual arts programme commissions new exhibitions, both on and off-site, with leading artists from around the world. Touring exhibitions include Sarah Browne (IE) How to Use Fool’s Gold, currently at Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver, Canada, and Mikala Dwyer (AUS) Panto Collapsar forthcoming at venues across Ireland. Upcoming onsite gallery projects include guest-curated exhibitions by Krist Gruijthuijsen and Anthony Huberman.
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