Unrequited Hatred
Curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó Cuirrín
August 11th – August 25th 2012
Opening Reception - August 10th
'Unrequited Hatred' is an independent contemporary art project curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó
Cuirrín, and features work by several Irish and European artists. The project will manifest itself in the form of
an exhibition which will take place from the 10th - 25th of August 2012 in The Shed, a 4000 square foot
temporary art venue in Galways docklands.
The project is facilitated by Adapt Galway, a coalition of local visual arts organisations, and is generously
supported by the Galway Harbour Company, Arts Council of Ireland, Galway City Council, and Temple Bar
Gallery and Studios.
Includes work by;
Darren Barrett, Alan Bulfin, Daniel Cunniffe, Terence Erraught, Nevan Lahart, Tadhg Ó
Cuirrín, Jeroen Van Dooren, Kees van Lankveld, Francis Quinn.
‘Play is nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play.’1
Georges Bataille
Unrequited Hatred is born out of a shared attitude towards our artistic practice. It is energetic and assertive,
emphasizing the importance of play and failure, and using humour to provoke, but also to induce more
expansive methods of thinking and creating.
We are concerned with the obsession with utilising or killing time efficiently within present consumerist
society. This obsession filters itself through the mediums of new digital technologies. Champions of these
communicative technology posit that this free flow of information has helped liberate the role of the individual
within Western society. However a convincing argument could be made that precisely the opposite has
occurred; namely that the constant bombardment of information and visual stimuli has had the effect of
debilitating the individuals capacity to think and reflect, contributing to the pervading sense of ennui and
lethargy that characterises the postmodernist epoch.
The exhibition Unrequited Hatred will respond to, and attempt to transcend the present condition. In this
project the artists will attempt to carve up the exhibition space as an independent site from this culture of
passivity, and will strive to present to the viewer something of the disavowed and fantastical desires that lurk
beyond the façade of everyday life.
Curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó Cuirrín
August 11th – August 25th 2012
Opening Reception - August 10th
'Unrequited Hatred' is an independent contemporary art project curated by Darren Barrett and Tadhg Ó
Cuirrín, and features work by several Irish and European artists. The project will manifest itself in the form of
an exhibition which will take place from the 10th - 25th of August 2012 in The Shed, a 4000 square foot
temporary art venue in Galways docklands.
The project is facilitated by Adapt Galway, a coalition of local visual arts organisations, and is generously
supported by the Galway Harbour Company, Arts Council of Ireland, Galway City Council, and Temple Bar
Gallery and Studios.
Includes work by;
Darren Barrett, Alan Bulfin, Daniel Cunniffe, Terence Erraught, Nevan Lahart, Tadhg Ó
Cuirrín, Jeroen Van Dooren, Kees van Lankveld, Francis Quinn.
‘Play is nothing if not an open and unreserved challenge to everything opposed to play.’1
Georges Bataille
Unrequited Hatred is born out of a shared attitude towards our artistic practice. It is energetic and assertive,
emphasizing the importance of play and failure, and using humour to provoke, but also to induce more
expansive methods of thinking and creating.
We are concerned with the obsession with utilising or killing time efficiently within present consumerist
society. This obsession filters itself through the mediums of new digital technologies. Champions of these
communicative technology posit that this free flow of information has helped liberate the role of the individual
within Western society. However a convincing argument could be made that precisely the opposite has
occurred; namely that the constant bombardment of information and visual stimuli has had the effect of
debilitating the individuals capacity to think and reflect, contributing to the pervading sense of ennui and
lethargy that characterises the postmodernist epoch.
The exhibition Unrequited Hatred will respond to, and attempt to transcend the present condition. In this
project the artists will attempt to carve up the exhibition space as an independent site from this culture of
passivity, and will strive to present to the viewer something of the disavowed and fantastical desires that lurk
beyond the façade of everyday life.
