BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.6//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:438@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250905T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250927T180000 DTSTAMP:20250829T105012Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/the-soft-fall-of-land-group-exhibition -at-the-library-project SUMMARY:the soft fall of land | Group Exhibition at The Library Project DESCRIPTION:the soft fall of land\n5 – 27 September 2025\n\nCurated by Ci ara Hickey\n\nPreview: Thursday 4 September 2025 from 6 – 8 pm at The Li brary Project\, 4 Temple Bar\, Dublin 2.\n\nFeaturing selected BCPS and in vited artists: Bassam Issa Al-Sabah\, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell\, Chloe B renan\, Aisling Conroy\, Grace Ryan\, Soft Fiction Projects\n\nBlack Churc h Print Studio is delighted to present the soft fall of land curated by Ci ara Hickey.\n\nThis exhibition brings together new work by Bassam Issa al- Sabah\, Sighle Bhreathnach-Cashell\, Chloe Brenan\, Aisling Conroy\, Grace Ryan and Soft Fiction Projects. It considers the idea of Utopia and exami nes the pursuit of this imagined\, impossible and aspirational state from a range of perspectives. The artworks in the exhibition oscillate between escapism and activism\, fantasy and instruction for creating an alternativ e\, better world.\n\nSighle Bhreathnach-Cashell and Bassam Issa al-Sabah h ave each made a new series of prints directing us into dense\, imagined wo rlds\, created from a personal lexicon of symbols drawn from the artists ’ history\, experience and critical response to the humanitarian\, socia l and ecological issues pervading contemporary life.\n\nAl-Sabah’s monoc hromatic prints\, made during his Process Residency at Black Church Studio s\, evoke imagery from his moving image works and installations\, where su blime\, seductive digital landscapes offer speculative worlds in which dys topian and utopian scenarios meet and intersect. Bhreathnach-Cashell\, kno wn for her immersive installations and activist work has created a new ser ies of aquatint etchings\, ‘Ulster Cycles’. The work translates years of the artist’s unseen drawings and depict mimetic figures using Celtic\ , biological and architectural imagery\, conjuring contemporary fables and cautionary tales.\n\nFor Grace Ryan and Chloe Brenan\, two studio members at Black Church Print Studio\, the invitation to think about Utopian idea ls led them to a close examination of the natural world. Ryan will create a sculptural composition in the gallery based on Ikebana—the ancient Jap anese art of flower arrangement rooted in balance\, asymmetry\, and the ha rmony between humans and nature.\n\nChloe Brenan’s current work is focus ed on the microcosm of an orchard in Carlow that is located beside her fam ily home. Originally created as a colonial project to order and control th e land\, the orchard is now overgrown\, the traces of colonial past are mu ted by the unabetted growth of weeds and shrubs over decades. The artist h as used Super 8 photography to mark the process of observing the orchard a nd acknowledging the small changes and diversity of plant life as dictated by time\, climate and chance. Brenan’s work in this exhibition represen ts the first and last frames of a roll of film on which she photographed t he orchard\, the edges of which are singed\, capturing the moment that an image is simultaneously created and extinguished.\n\nBlack Church Print St udio member Aisling Conroy continues her exploration of sound and cymatics \, the study of vibrational phenomena. This new work comprises a grid of 4 0 prints representing the 40 Chladni plates\, a methodology developed by E rnst Chladni in 1787 as a visual manifestation of sound vibrations\, looki ng at the patterns produced by sounds on flat plates made by a bow. The wo rk offers an invitation to think about the invisible forces that shape our reality and consider the possibilities of new languages and systems for u nderstanding and grappling with the unknown.\n\nSoft Fiction Projects (Ale ssia Cargnelli and Emily McFarland) are an initiative that produce printed and digital matter to explore archives of underrepresented voices\, oppos itional histories and geopolitical narratives. For the exhibition they hav e produced a free print that can be taken by visitors. The print is based on Women’s News\, a Belfast collective-run publication active between 19 84 and 2011\, who used the medium of print matter as a method for generati ng common ground\, sharing experiences and encouraging community building. This leaflet uses DIY approaches to archival material\, collected from Ma yDay Rooms\, as a way to reimagine and revisit this history.\n\nExhibition continues until Saturday 27 September 2025.\nOpening hours: Mon – Fri 1 1 am – 6 pm\, Sat 12 – 6 pm.\nLate Opening for Culture Night: Fri 20 S ept. 2025. Open until 9 pm. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /08/thesoftfallofland-3.png CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Leinster - Dublin LOCATION:The Library Project\, 4 Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, Ireland GEO:53.345582;-6.263424 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4 Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, I reland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=The Library Project:geo:53.345582,-6.263 424 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR