The Silent Series: Sitting with Art offers a quieter way to experience Dublin Gallery Weekend, with designated silent hours across participating galleries where phones are silenced and conversation pauses, allowing the artworks to take centre stage. Visitors can look, sit, read or simply enjoy a moment of stillness, with no expectation to talk or interpret. Designated for anyone seeking a pause from screens and the bustle of the city, the series also offers a welcoming space for neurodivergent visitors and others who prefer a quieter gallery experience.
The Silent Series: Sitting with Art will take place among the work of artist Fionn McCann in the Ashford Gallery.
In Deconstructing a Mountain, artist Fionn McCann presents a new body of photographic work developed over four years, tracing a landscape in continual transformation. Focusing on the extraction of rock from a mountain shaped over hundreds of millions of years, McCann explores the tension between geological time and human labour. His photographs reveal the layers, cuts and traces left by quarrying, while also turning attention to the workers who shape the landscape, many of whom have travelled from Lithuania.
Connecting this remote Atlantic site to wider histories of migration, labour and the movement of skills across Europe, Deconstructing a Mountain considers photography and quarrying as parallel acts of selection and revelation, inviting us to see landscape not as fixed, but as something continually made and remade.
Installation image: Ros Kavanagh Photography.
