DABF25 Curator’s Opening Talk | Flock
04 December 2025, 5-6pm
Join Dublin Art Book Fair’s Guest Curator Dr. Selina Guinness as she introduces this year’s theme, Flock.
DABF24 Talk | Objects in narratives
28 November 2024, 6pm
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Artist Sean Lynch and artist, writer and DABF Guest Curator Adrian Duncan explore—through a series of objects—the fascinating relationships between reality and fiction in Lynch's practice.
Join Sean Lynch and Adrian Duncan, long standing confidantes, as they spend an evening in Studio 6 discovering the in-betweens of the real and the fictional. Speculatively listing a top ten of possible new narrative styles, they hope to peer into the blurry lines between realism and fantasy. The conversation will centre around narratives at DABF24 interspersed with short screenings of Lynch’s work, delving into how certain objects appear in this form of narrative work and will be followed by a Q&A.
Sean Lynch lives and works in Askeaton, County Limerick, where alongside Michele Horrigan, he runs Askeaton Contemporary Arts, an artist-led residency, commissioning and publication initiative. He represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2015. Select solo exhibitions include City Hall, Melbourne (2023), Edinburgh Art Festival (2021); Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2019); and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2017). In Dublin, he regularly exhibits at Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and in 2024 presented a two-person exhibition at The Complex with Laura Ní Fhlaibhín.
Adrian Duncan is an Irish artist, writer and an editor with PVA Books. His latest novel The Geometer Lobachevsky was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize in 2023. His next novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth will be published in January 2025 with Tuskar Rock Press. His films have screened at IFFR, Karlovy Vary IFF, HotDocs, and IDFA, among others. His forthcoming film on Fascist-era architecture in Italy is called Latina, Latina. This was an Arts Council Reel-Art-funded project and is due in early 2025.
Dublin Art Book Fair (DABF) is a centre for contemporary artist books offering unique artist publications and titles from creative, small and independent publishers, both Irish and international. Each year, DABF presents an extended programme of events and a curated selection of books nominated by the Guest Curator. Adrian Duncan’s Fictions: The makings of other worlds considers different ways stories can be told; the images, spaces, objects, figures, feelings that emerge while doing so; and the sorts of truths they propose.
DABF24 is proudly sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature and RTÉ Supporting The Arts.
