Artist's talk with Michael Dempsey, Head of Exhibitions, Dublin City Gallery will take place at 5pm, followed by general viewing from 6-8.30pm.

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FURTIVE TEARS is an exhibition by Irish artist Niamh McCann that explores the dynamic relationship between the audience, object and mode of display. It brings together the mythologies of Sir Edward Carson, the Irish unionist politician and barrister with Hans Poelzig, the German architect, painter and set designer. McCann reveals how the interplay of fact and fiction bring the remnants of the past into the present and the things of the present into the future.

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An installation in four galleries, FURTIVE TEARS is a composite of mixed materials that appropriate utopian ideas of fluid relationships between Art/Architecture/Design in early modernism. McCann exhibits assemblages and interventions as well as a newly commissioned video-work Furtive Tears, Salomé’s Lament. A backdrop or film set of a kind, each individual element is autonomous yet presented as one whole. 

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This exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

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Niamh McCann is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include La Perruque (Protest Song) at MAC Belfast and Just Left of Copernicus in Visual Carlow. Group exhibitions include: Future Perfect, Rubicon-Projects Brussels; Changing States: Contemporary Art and Francis Bacon’s Studio, BOZAR, Belgium; Time Out of Mind: Works from the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art; In Other Words, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; this little bag of dreams, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; and Without-Boundaries, Wäinö Attonen, Museum of Art, Finland Her work is represented in the collections of IMMA, The OPW, Limerick City Gallery, Swansea City Council, The London Institute, and Hiscox Collection, London.

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For more information see: Event  or  niamhmccann.com

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