GREEN ON RED GALLERY

Kirstin Arndt
Alan Butler
Electronic Sheep
Damien Flood
Mark Joyce
Scott Lyall
Fergus Martin
Niamh McCann
Caroline McCarthy
Nigel Rolfe
Aoife Shanahan 

Green On Red Gallery’s 33rd? summer exhibition, Second Sun, has been conceived to trigger or to tempt the notion of an alternative, maybe even parallel or better world to our own.   

Are there, in fact, multiple solar systems sustaining billions of civilizations ?  

On green-blue planet earth will AI's metaverse enhance or consume our universe ?

As dogmas collapse right, left and centre how do we reimagine humanity's future.. and in rising temperatures ?   Is there a plan(et) B ?   Will the sun ever come ?

Artists in Second Sun imagine other places and other possibilities.

*  Electronic Sheep’s text is written by Bharáin Mac An Bhreithiún and Róisín Ní Chéileachair for the Kilburn Stoop Party Triptych series as follows :  

Londain a bhí le feiceáil trí lionsa ciorclach an laindéir draíochta… Chonaic mé an abhainn mhór ghairmiúil sin faoi lánluas agus faoi ghealach ghlébhuí.  Í féin go h-ard sa spéir, chonaic mé soitheach soilseach ar an abhainn chéanna, long a bhí ag lonrú go leictreach faoi sholas na lánghealaí gur bháigh sí í féin go grinneall scátha. Chuaigh mé ó sheomra go seomra agus bhuail mé le hÉireannaigh uile Londan ann.  Bhí Pádraig agus Speranza ann, Micheál bhí imithe leis an sorcas, Literati Southwark ar fad agus púca de phíobaire ó St. Giles.  Amach linn ar fad ar an tsráid le chéile an oíche shamhraidh cheolmhar cheiliúrthach sin.  

In English :   

Looking into the magic lantern, I saw London. I saw the lovely swift flowing river and the bright moon high above, and a dazzling sailing ship bathed in electric light, sinking into a sea of shadows.  I went from room to room and met the Irish of London in all their variety.  Both Pádraic and Speranza were there, Micheál who had joined the circus, the Southwark Literati, a ghostly piper from St. Giles.  We all spilled out onto the street to enjoy the sweet music of a summer’s night.

** The Kilburn Tapestries text is selected and given by Enda Walsh