Soon (In 45 Years' Time) / Gan Mhoill (I gCionn 45 Bliain) is an exhibition that continues to triangulate a position for Project Visual Arts, in this instance through considering its location, spatially and temporally, with reference to one of its closest neighbours: the radical bookshop, Connolly Books. The name is adapted from a short story by Alexandra Kollontai, a work of speculative fiction in which an older woman reflects on her life and on events that have led to the not-too-distant utopian society in which she lives.
Colin Darke and Ruth Ewan were invited to respond to our 45 years of adjacency within the locality of Temple Bar, thinking of the continuities and discontinuities between these two spaces; the ideas that are reflected, refracted or otherwise circulate between them; and to consider their social and civic functions. Themes around time - with reference to labour and value, pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary moments, and alternative ways of figuring time - run through the exhibition, which also includes artist-selected works (Livia Kojo Alour selected by Ruth Ewan) and some made through collaborative/delegated processes (Hilary Morton and Mary Kervick with Colin Darke).
