Make Ready (Survey Exhibition)
5–22 March 2015, The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin
The exhibition made a single intervention – a press-folded aluminium shelving unit of 2.7M height – forming a 4M skeletal wall across the gallery. I reconfigured the space to function as window display, library, reading room and exhibition. Aligning the shelving parallel with the glass shopfront and stepped back it functioned as sign and window display when viewed from the outside. A deep space inside, between the glazing and the shelf facilitated an intimate (yet in public view) ‘reading room’, while the gallery-facing side offered another browsing space and overview perspective of the installation. On the shelves were books, prototypes, posters, make-ready sheets, records, CDs, and several unique artifacts. An amplifier, speakers, turntable and CD player enabled visitors to select and listen to recordings, while an adjacent laptop played-out a number of film works on a loop. The sound of each source clashed or merged with environmental noises of gallery and street.

 Maybury, P. (2015) Make Ready (2015), installation view, The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin. (Photograph: Maybury, P.).