Events: Visual Arts

THE MARIENBAD PALACE
Droichead Arts Centre until June 26
Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery until September 15
Admission: Free

Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell Street
Friday 30 April - Saturday 26 June
Tuesday-Saturday 10.00am-5.00pm

Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Laurence Street
Friday 30th April - Wed 15th September
Time: Tues - Sat 10.30am - 5.00pm. Sun 2.00pm - 6.00pm

"Sooner or later the process will halt, at that moment revealing the true dimensions of the world we inhabit, and which the visual centres of our timid brains have concealed from us."
- JG Ballard, The Enormous Space

'The Marienbad Palace' brings together works by Laura Buckley, Diana Copperwhite, Jorge De La Garza, Alicja Kwade, Haroon Mirza and Ian Monroe. The works shown within the exhibition explore ideas of reality beyond our everyday experiences of space and time. In the Marienbad Palace, time stretches and is without duration, space is multidimensional, the distinction between subjective and objective reality blurred.

The exhibition, which includes collage, painting, sculpture, installation and video, takes its title from JG Ballard's 1989 short story 'The Enormous Space' and Alain Resnais' seminal 1961 film 'Last Year in Marienbad'.

Curator's and artists' talk: Saturday 1 May at 1.00pm starting at Highlanes Gallery. Highlanes Gallery will open during the festival on additional days of Sunday / Monday 2 and 3 May from 12pm - 5pm.