The Night Journal

An exhibition considering constructed realities of the night by four intergenerational Northern Irish artists working in print, drawing, installation and film. About The Night Journal is an exhibition considering constructed realities of the night by four, intergenerational artists working in Northern Ireland. These four vantage points feature new and existing work including print, drawing, installation, film and a new text by Michaela Razafima Nash. Written from the perspective of an insomnia-driven walk, the journal encounters the different artists' worlds in a haze of sodium lit grit and fantasy. Aisling O'Beirn's Secondhand Nightscapes are a series of framed drawings of the night sky chronicled every month for a year. Because urban light pollution obscures the view, O'Beirn reconstructs what should be visible, pulling in references to how humans look to the stars to construct meaning—from maritime navigation to astrology, feeling our scale, and seeing through time via light-years. Wilhelmina Peace brings a surrealist approach to her printing and drawing. Dreamscapes bubble up across the walls, playing with scale, symbolism, memory, internal processing, folded time, and hints of mysticism. As well as the journal, Michaela Razafima Nash shares gif works documenting a bout of insomnia and a distorted half-waking state connected to living with chronic illness. The slides aim to collapse the delineation of day and night, a blurring when energy levels no longer neatly follow the accepted circadian rhythm. The exhibition concludes with Brutal Discotèque by Reuben Brown. This new installation and film explores queer club culture and how a city's residual urban space, such as the space under a motorway flyover, can be activated at night to become an improvised dance floor in lieu of built infrastructure. Read more Toggle Drawing Installation Film / Video