Wasteland will transform West Cork Arts Centre’s James O’Driscoll gallery into a hypothetical place, an absurd playground overflowing with salvaged objects, postal packages, sculptures and debris. Nestled amidst its poetic surrounds the story of the artists’ attempts to dismantle and relocate a public park to a new location unfolds.

This exhibition explores the institutional rules and regulations that pervade our lives, and what happens when things slip through the cracks. It also marks the first collaboration between Czech artists Eva Kot’átková and Dominik Lang.

Eva Kot’átková has exhibited in the recent international exhibitions of Venice Biennale (2013), Moscow Biennale (2013), Sydney Biennale (2012) and Lyon Biennale (2011), as well as making solo exhibitions at Modern Art Oxford and Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2013, amongst others. She studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Prague Academy of Applied Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and Akademie Bildende Kunst Wien from 2002-2007. In 2007 she became the youngest artist ever to be awarded the Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young artists in the Czech Republic.

Dominik Lang exhibited in La Triennale (2012), and has presented recent solo exhibitions in Secession, Vienna (2013), Kunsthaus Dresden (2012), and in the Pavilion of the Czech Republic at the 54th Venice Biennale (2010). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2008, while taking one year during his studies at Cooper Union in New York and the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. Currently he is head of the sculpture studio at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague, together with Edith Jerabkova, and in 2013 he was also awarded the Jindrich Chalupecky Award for young artists.

Wasteland was originally commissioned by Project Arts Centre, curated by Tessa Giblin and produced with thanks to the Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin City Council and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. This tour is supported by an Arts Council Touring Award.  West Cork Arts Centre is the fifth partner venue on the tour. The exhibition has travelled to the Mermaid Arts Centre and Limerick City Gallery of Art, Wexford Arts Centre and Droichead Arts Centre.