Exhibition programme 2026

Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland is pleased to share our 2026 visual arts exhibition programme. 

Maryam Tafakory: Daria’s Night Flowers
January 29–April 18, 2026
Opening: Wednesday January 28, 2026   

Maryam Tafakory is a UK-based, Iranian artist film-maker who makes textual and filmic collages. Her work interweaves poetry, archival, and found material to explore depictions of erasure, secrecy, and censorship. In her essayistic videos, images and scenes drawn from a vast archive of films are reworked to examine intimacy, desire, and prohibition. She works with film and performance and is the 2024 winner of the Film London Jarman Award.

Tafakory’s new film, Daria’s Night Flowers, functions as a fragmented, essayistic text, merging found‐footage and scripted narrative elements, typical of Tafakory’s experimental approach. It constitutes their ongoing body of research into representations of women, or the lack thereof, in post-revolution Iranian cinema. It focuses on the concealed queer stories and the representation of desire through a system of codes and leaving things unsaid.

Liliana Zeic: Eating the Sun
May 1–July 18, 2026
Opening: Thursday April 30, 2026

Co-curated with Dr Aleksandra Gajowy, Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Art at the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, Ireland, leading researcher in queer and lesbian studies.

Liliana Zeic’s artistic practice is rooted in queer feminism and queer ecology. She works with craft techniques such as marquetry, as well as with video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects grounded in artistic research. Since 2020, she has increasingly turned to craft-based methods, primarily developing her own woodwork technique based on intarsia.

She was a finalist at the Forecast Forum at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in 2017 and received the Audience Award for Views 2019 at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art. She has participated in more than 140 solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. Her works are included in both private and public collections, including NOMUS New Museum of Art, the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, the Wrocław Contemporary Museum, the Municipal Gallery Arsenal, and the Museum of Art in Łódź (MS).

Ruth Clinton & Niamh Moriarty: A Collection of Disarticulated Bones
August 7–October 10, 2026
Opening: Thursday August 6, 2026

A Collection of Disarticulated Bones is a body of work that unpicks various foundation myths of Ireland and the US: institutional, pop cultural and embodied. This long-term project examines how decisions relating to preservation and presentation of histories can shape national and individual identities, in the context of imperialism, late capitalism, rising ethnonationalism and polarised public debate on both sides of the Atlantic. 

The exhibition, A Collection of Disarticulated Bones, reflects on the mysterious textures of contemporary reality in Ireland, while foregrounding stories of collective action, contested histories, and the struggle to authentically remember. 

Ruth Clinton and Niamh Moriarty are collaborative artists based in the West of Ireland. They make visual art exhibitions at the cross-section of experimental film and music, concerned with power and complicity, ecology and loss. Their recent work tests the possibility of creating a new narrative identity for Ireland and the Irish diaspora that will acknowledge our adversities, admit our complicities and build our capacity for solidarity. 

Working together for over a decade, this new exhibition will call between two stages of the artists’ practice. From early work made in Dublin excavating hyperreal touristic experiences within the city – to more recent work reflecting on forms of privatisation and enclosure in the West of Ireland. 

Rehana Zaman: Plantation
October 23–December 24, 2026
Opening: Thursday October 22, 2026

Co-commissioned by Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, Glasgow International, Scotland, UK, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland, and Chapter, Cardiff, Wales, UK, in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.

The exhibition explores land use, ownership and environmental collapse through the experiences of agricultural workers.

Filmed in Angus, Scotland and Punjab, Pakistan, the two-part film follows migrant seasonal workers, sharecroppers, tenants and day labourers as they pick, prepare and transport cash crops. 

The film explores the nature of work on modern industrial farms driven by the accumulation of profit, extractive processes that exhaust and deplete both land and worker, and an increasingly precarious labour force positioned according to class and caste.

The multi-channel installation extends into a sculptural environment riffing on agricultural structures, such as polytunnels and cooling tents, transforming the gallery into an immersive landscape of light and sound.

After premiering at Site Gallery in February 2026, the exhibition will tour to Glasgow International in June 2026, Whitechapel Gallery in July 2026, and Chapter in January 2027. 

Produced by Site Gallery. Research and development supported by Hospitalfield. Commission and exhibition made possible with support from Arts Council, Henry Moore Foundation, the Joanna Drew Travel Bursary, and Goldsmiths University of London Strategic Research Fund.

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