‘Other Ground’ art exhibition to open this week
Published on 30th April 2025
Dublin City Council’s The LAB Gallery is pleased to present its latest exhibition Other Ground by Pascal Ungerer curated by Margarita Cappock.
This show will run from 1st May to 5th June 2025. The exhibition opening is on 1st May, 6pm - 8pm and will be launched by Dawn Williams, Exhibitions Curator at the Crawford Gallery Cork.
The LAB was established by Dublin City Council in 2005 as a municipal arts hub, housing gallery, rehearsal and incubation spaces for a range of art forms.
The LAB Gallery supports emerging art practices and delivers a year round programme of free events for all ages. In addition to Dublin City Council, the LAB Gallery is supported by the Arts Council.
Ungerer’s painting practice explores the relationship and conflict between the built and the natural world. His work looks at liminal topographies and structures that lie on the margins of human habitation. He examines the interstitial spaces and edgelands situated at the intersection of the urban and rural. His painting practice is grounded in an archaeology of the recent past that he sees ‘as a means of uncovering hidden layers of meaning within the everyday.’
Most of his paintings are fictional landscapes and structures that are loosely based on locations he has photographed in the past. He then amalgamates these images or ideas into a metaphorical environment to reflect upon wider socio-geographic issues, such as ecological degradation, alterity, peripherality, speculative future landscapes and the Anthropocene.
His work often focuses on infrastructure and habitats that are ambiguous, amorphic or obsolete and he views these structures and places as being an architecture of the periphery and an allegorical reference for time, change and history. Many of these painting explore imagined future landscapes inspired by ethereal topographies that oscillate between progress and decline within the arena of the everyday.
For interviews with the artist or further press images please contact Dublin City Council’s Press Office.
***Attached please find one of the images used in the exhibition***
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