Brian Duggan, 'They've tried everything to keep us from riding...in the end we always win'
12th October - 22nd November 2012
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Brian Duggan,
'They've tried everything to keep us from riding...in the end we always win'
12th October - 22nd November
In this tantilising exhibition, Brian Duggan presents new work, work that has not been seen in Ireland and work that has come in from the outside.
Duggan engages people in questioning the myriad decisions of the everyday, where he twists experience and materials to check the actuality of lived experience.
Problems, crisis and mistakes, the inherent risks of choosing an activity or choosing inactivity are an ongoing focus for his projects.
The exhibitions includes 23 swings first shown in Paris 2007, that visitors can use in the gallery. A stone sculpture of the Fukushima power plant, made up of 5 types of inlaid stone, and two new digital video installations.
"I was really scared when i first heard about these balls," said Mulyanto, a 27 year old shopkeeper, who rides between his hometown of Bognor and Jakarta almost every day for work. "It sounds like it could be really dangerous"
