Waystation is the forthcoming graduate exhibition of the MA Fine Art at TU Dublin, 2024 at The Complex Gallery. The five artists have worked collaboratively as a group and in conjunction with Complex curator Mark O'Gorman, to create Waystation as a site of cross contamination and colliding worlds beyond the usual conventions of a degree show.
A way station is an intermediate stopping place, a moment to pause on a journey. Waystation is an imagined rest-stop for the artist’s work, an interval as it prepares to embark once again on its journey in the world. As such, Waystation is less a fixed destination and more a process and journey.
Waystation deploys archival and storeroom conventions as a means for display, speaking to processes of gathering, storing and contextualising knowledge.
Each artist follows threads of disturbed temporalities and queer fictions. Moments of flux and slippage are acted out, documented, and archived within the multiplicities of The Complex Gallery - a space retains pasts from its storied life - from warehouse to gallery to Waystation. The artists generate portals into possible pasts and speculative futures, inviting viewers to cross thresholds and collaborate in world building.
The five artists featured in the exhibition are: Aideen Farrell, Eden Munroe, Ger O'Brien, Kat Lalor, and Claire O'Hagan. The Complex will be spotlighting these artists and their works as the exhibition's opening nears.
Waystation will run at The Complex Gallery on Arran Street East from Saturday, 26th October - Saturday 2nd November, with a preview on Friday 25th October, 6-8 pm.
The exhibition is kindly sponsored by Whiplash Beer, who will provide refreshments on opening night and The Complex Bar will be open from 8pm for everyone to enjoy drinks and chat about the show.