Curator’s Tour: 'Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home' at Dublin Port
- 13 July 2024
Opening Hours
Thurs–Sun: 11am–5pm
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is partnering with Dublin Port Company on two solo exhibitions by Yuri Pattison and Liliane Puthod at The Pumphouse, surrounded by the active logistical operations of a thriving city port.
Yuri Pattison’s site-specific installation, dream sequence, is located in the disused 1950s Pump House No. 2, made accessible to the public for the first time. The former graving docks, where ships were repaired and maintained, is the site of Liliane Puthod’s Beep Beep artwork.
The exhibition’s title, Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home, is drawn from James Joyce’s ubiquitous Ulysses. Characteristically elusive in his meaning, Joyce’s use of this popular idiom hints at a circuitous route back to one’s origins. The phrase itself is often used to describe the relationship between time and labour and, in the case of this exhibition, there are further associations with journeys, departures, homecomings, and new beginnings. These scenarios all resonate with the functions of Dublin Port, as well as Joyce’s own embedded experience of the city, the river and Dublin Bay.
TBG+S is taking this opportunity to celebrate connectivity between the cityscape and the Port, imagining a journey along the River Liffey from the gallery and artists’ studios in the touristic heart of Temple Bar, along the quays through historical, financial and cultural areas to the industrial heritage zone of Dublin Port.
Longest Way Round, Shortest Way Home is reflective of artistic processes in studio practice and exhibition-making, the testing of ideas and processes to materialise a vision. Two distinct exhibitions use forms of artistic storytelling to offer points of connection between geographic, economic and technical networks. They use the symbolism of rivers and seas, and the infrastructure that utilises and defines their movement, as places of impermanence that describe transitory relationships through, and outside of the flow of time.
The exhibitions are mediated with an in-depth public engagement programme including artist’s talks, education tours, and commissioned artistic responses at Dublin Port.
Temple Bar Gallery + Studios would like to extend a special thank you to the exhibiting artists Yuri Pattison and Liliane Puthod; Dublin Port Company, Lar Joye (Port Heritage Director), Marta Lopez, James Kelleher, Tom McNiff, Declan Sullivan, John Dungan, Keith Nolan, Marcella Collins, Edel Currie, Claire Percy and Barry O’Connell (CEO); The Arts Council, Maureen Kennelly and Claire Power; Alex Synge; Gibney Communications, Frankie Lally, Cian Geoghegan and Tom Finnegan; Exhibition technicians Stéphane Béna Hanly, Maria McKinney, John Byrne, Ciaran Reynolds, and Carl Mullen; Digital Screen Displays, Conor Moran; ContainExperts; Gary Keville Transport; Exhibition mediators Aibhlin Clabby, Matthew Coll, Mary Kervick, Maelisa Lennon, Joanne Reid, Anna Stuart, and Falon Weaver; Una Carmody; TBG+S Friends, Donors and Patrons, with special recognition to Deborah Crowley, Richard Lyons and Miriam Reilly; and TBG+S Board members Richard Lyons (Chair), Bassam Issa Al-Sabah, Michelle Darmody, Joe Hanly, Anne Mathews, Paul McAree, Peter McGovern, Isabel Nolan, Lye Ogunsanya, Mairead O’hEocha, Joe Prendergast, Laura Redmond, Elaine Russell, and Geraldine Shanley.