Empty Columns are a Place to Dream
May 2024
collective exhibition
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The exhibition will be open to the public at Birr Theatre & Arts Centre throughout May / June / July 2024.
Admission is free, and all are welcome.
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The exhibition:
Monuments are ubiquitous on the landscape. Common and omnipresent, they blend into the background and go unnoticed until someone points them out. In recent years, monuments have become flashpoints of cultural controversy. It wasn’t that these monuments weren’t being seen, it’s that some people in the community weren’t hearing what others in the community were saying about them.
Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream features the collages of fourteen artists from Austria, Belgium, Canada, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Poland, South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom made a series of collages that reimagined the empty column in the centre of Birr, County Offaly, Ireland, which, from 1747 to 1915, commemorated the Duke of Cumberland’s 1745 victory over the Scots at Culloden, as 21st century beacons of hope and reconciliation.
