Obedience: An exhibition about buildings, changing environments, communities, and the relationships between people and place.

Co-curated by Ishmael Claxton & Eve Woods Featuring Photography, Sculptural mapping & Painting Ishmael Claxton, Hollie Gilson, Con: temporary Quarters Screening and installation of Displace: The Battle For Dublin

This temporary gallery used to be an empty shuttered shop front. It used to be Imaginationism. It used to be an independent book shop. It used to be a butcher's shop. In 1913 John Lyons, James McGinn, and Joseph Flanagan lived here.

A one bed, one bath above here costs €2,000 per month (BER exempt). The exhibition brings together large-scale transparent mapping of the neighbourhood, intimate photographs of lost creative spaces and paintings exploring the collisions and contradictions of Dublin's built environment. Through these works, buildings are treated not as static objects but as records of changing communities, economies, and systems of power. As streets, homes, and cultural spaces are continually repurposed, the exhibition asks what forms of obedience are demanded by the contemporary city, who benefits from its transformation, and what kinds of life its architecture makes possible. 

As part of Obedience we will have a very special installation and
screening of Displace: The Battle For Dublin. Displace looks at the "right to the city" in the context of Dublin. The film is informed by critiques of the neoliberal transformation of urban spaces over recent decades. It interrogates a sense of space being lost, and a retreat from providing for the common good.

Open daily for The Liberties Festival 20th-26th July, 1-5 pm
Drinks Reception: Thursday 23/07 6-9 pm
Screening: Displace: The Battle for Dublin Friday 24/07, 6 pm