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Photography Hanna Hrabarska: My Mom Wants To Go B
ack Home This personal work by Ukrainian photographer Hanna Hrabarska chronicles her escape with her mother from Ukraine during the early days of war. Through her lens, Hanna offers a personal glimpse into the challenges they faced, capturing a unique perspective on the realities of war and displacement. Her captivating visual narrative charts their journey from abandoning their homes in Kyiv to finding a new home in Amsterdam. A candid exploration on the search for new identities and complexities of being a war refugee. Photo Museum Ireland until September 2. hannahrabarska.com Exhibition James Hanly: Recast To some of us James Hanly is Mr RHA, the artist we most associate with the space in terms of his presence there and continual association. Recast is a body of over 100 drawings of statues which he worked on during lockdown in his home studio on the North Strand. Drawn from photos, thumbnails and notes of hundreds of statues he encountered over two decades of travel. He has taken this immutable monuments, faithfully rendering their modest or majestic poses, before making gently comic or satirical interventions, whatever the rhetoric of the figure suggests. It’s all about the supporting cast in this instance, new life and contemporary relevance being brought to bear on their imperiousness. RHA from Thursday August 24 until Sunday October 1. Exhibition Banbha McCann: Domestic Bliss Continuing their Artist-Initiated Projects program at Pallas, Domestic Bliss reflects on the desire for a home, and how to make one. We are told the work in this exhibition, “blurs the lines between the personal and universal, image and object, memory and desire. Paintings of domestic interiors are sourced from the collective memory and imagination; the aspirational homes of Home Alone and Mrs. Doubtfire. Textiles and sculptures juxtapose the canon of modern design with childhood memories of life in a bedsit, where objects take on the role of an entire room; the tv, the microwave, and the bed, the potted plant as a garden. These real and imagined places and objects describe the places we live, and the home we carry around in our heads.” Pallas Projects/Studios, opens Thursday September 14 and runs to Saturday September 30. banbhamccann.com Event Culture Night It’s our very own mini Rockefeller Center moment this Culture Night as the public space outside the Central Plaza on Dame Street is set to transformed into a large-scale outdoor Roller Skating disco (8pm10pm) hosted by roller skate enthusiast, ambassador for Culture Night and creator of the Subtle Poision fashion brand, Grainne Binns. From Swing Dance to Brazilian Forró, social dance classes from Mind The Step will be at Barnardo Square (6pm-10pm) while Meeting House Square is rolling out something for everyone from 5.30pm to midnight climaxing with LGBTQ+ collective Strawberries who will host a two-hour electronic music event with a live set from Soria Reilly, followed by Bull Horris B2B Tadhg K and Efa O’Neill. There’s an open Vogue Ball down in Wood Quay amphitheatre also. culturenightdublin.ie for full programme details. 62