The Temple of Psychic youth

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Chancery Lane Tues-Fri 10.30am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm Until Sep 8 01-4759514

Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Chancery Lane Tues-Fri 10.30am-5.30pm, Sat 11am-5pm Until Sep 8 01-4759514

Exhibition curator Pádraic E Moore is aiming for a perceptual leap with a diverse body of works including a rack of Jonah King’s glittering, sequined dowsing suits as featured in a film work by him; Mark Durkan’s dazzling mirror-surfaced installation Rombico and an archive of exhibition invitation cards by Michael Asher who, in decades past, was the Leo Enright of Irish painting, with chilled-out, cosmic, starry visions of deep space.

Moore takes his title from the informal network of alt-creative types established by the strikingly named Genesis P-Orridge (once Neil Andrew Megson) in 1981 and who was one of the four-piece group Throbbing Gristle in the latter 1970s.

Moore’s record confirms that he is in sympathy with P-Orridge’s aspiration to leap the bounds of everyday perception. We too are invited to do so in his “exhibition-as-temple”.

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Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne is visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times