Dublin City Council’s The LAB Gallery presents its latest exhibition ‘Nach Cuma? Who Cares?’

This is an exhibition that explores the politics of care and responsibility with a focus on class and race within working class communities in Dublin. Developed out of a series of collaborative workshops with youth and adult groups in Rialto, Bluebell and Ballymun the project responds to an alarming rise in hate-driven rhetoric and division, particularly within working-class spaces.  

This exhibition follows on from Carey’s earlier work Stones, which focused on the relationship between individuals and place in Ballymun. Where Stones honed in on one community, Nach Cuma? expands to hold space across multiple sites, bringing people into slow, honest conversations about difficult truths and lived realities.  

Through a dialogical process and workshops within The LAB Gallery, the exhibition becomes a platform for intergenerational dialogue and reflection. Rejecting tokenism and reactionary politics, the work seeks instead to centre care and asks: who provides it, who receives it, and what happens when it is absent? Through visual, social, and dialogic forms, Nach Cuma? offers not conclusions but a methodology: one of listening, reflection, and accountability. 

The exhibition will be opened by Willa White, comedian on Thursday 21st August: 6pm - 8pm.

Speaking about the work Carey said. "Nach bhfuil cúram ort? Nach Cuma? Is iad seo daoine, le saolta, le clan. Is iad seo ár deatháireacha agus ár deirfiúracha. Cá bhfuil an cúram? Growing up as a working class Dubliner for me was an experience synonymous with care and responsibility. To be accountable for your actions and to show support to your fellow humans, to face the struggle head on and proud. This exhibition for me is a starting point, the start of a discussion, a question – Is that care and responsibility still there? And with that, who even cares?’

***See attached Images from the ‘Nach Cuma? Who Cares?’ exhibition Image 1: Bike. Image 2:Car, Image 3: Dog Painting, Image 4: Pig***

Gallery opening times: Monday to Saturday 10am to 6pm Admission Free 

The LAB Gallery 

Dublin City Arts Office, 

Foley Street, Dublin D01 N5H6 Tel: (01) 222 5455