Launch Thursday 18 October at 6pm, Crawford Art Gallery

THERE THERE will bring more than 30 international, national and local lens based artists under one banner.

There’ll be six different exhibitions with different concerns sharing a common thematic framework, responses to otherness. We have secured an internationally recognised female photographer to anchor the event, Viviane Sassen.

We wish to promote emerging and established artists while also combining national/international artists for exhibitions and lectures.

The basic thematic framework for THERE THERE is otherness and the possible re-connections and interpretations of the world we are immersed in.

As exhibition-makers, we are fascinated with the communicative power that photographic images hold and the contextualisation of different photographic/lens-based works from different parts of the globe in an Irish situation. As global citizens, we all are deep in socially constructed signs loaded with commercial and political connotations, with other humane signs going and remaining unnoticed, i.e. how we relate to each other and the gifts that happen in living.

THERE THERE will be a space that is open for imaginative re-positionings and crucially one of wonder that allows the familiar and unfamiliar to weave together. The ambition behind THERE THERE will be to open up a gap or break for us as situated beings to re-imagine our place with each other and our surroundings.