*The dissolution of visible signs* Eco wrote that art draws value from a rupture with the laws that govern language, as signs and signifiers are interrogated by artists for their own ‘subversive ends’ Green On Red presents the work of Damien Flood, Scott Lyall,Niamh McCann, and David OReilly. Working across multiple media, and exploring a variety of themes, they are united in how they disrupt safe and easy readings of social, cultural, and historic signs. Flood interrogates the ontology of painting and sculpture, through multi-layered works that oscillate between landscape, figuration, representation, and abstraction. Incorporating quasi functional domestic objects, his practice picks apart and unravels social, cultural, and historic signs. Lyall’s practice also refuses a clear definition, as his ‘thin reliefs,’ fluctuate between painting, sculpture, and architecture. Referencing the pixel, Lyall’s colour-wave paintings are formed by mathematical interpolation that generates a unique and potentially infinite bitstream, as he questions the informational fetish of the post-digital and their signs. First solo show in GOR in 2023. McCann playfully disrupts the world of cultural and historic signs as she upends the systems enabling their meaning. She incisively layers and re-codes images, objects, and cultural tropes creating a plurality of ideas which read with paradoxical clarity. Poetic and political, the signifiers and symbols of hegemonic colonial power are reformed as a tool to question our underlying assumptions. OReilly seeks to disrupt and unsettle our understanding of contemporary cultural systems as he recontextualizes the revolutionary 4004 Intel microchip, offered as both an artefact and an icon through video and sculpture.

Alan Magee

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