The Souvenir Shop

Exhibition

Installation

The Souvenir Shop

Past: September 16 → October 1, 2016

One of the key leader of the Easter Rising, Tom Clarke had a tobacconist shop — a place of exchange and chatter, as well as a hub of ideas and purpose. His whole family and livelihood was involved in what the balance of Dublin city was — an outpost of Edwardian Britain’s Empire alongside a revolutionary movement that was part of a changing Europe. Noblet’s sweet shop was another site of exchange, soon to become the first place of looting and anarchy when the Rising took place. Bearing this in mind, The Souvenir Shop examines the banality of how revolution happens and where it takes place, alongside the shifting meanings and fetishisation of the gestures and symbols that underpin conventional understandings of the ‘props’ of revolution. Installed in the atelier of the CCI, The Souvenir Shop sells all sorts of 1916 memorabilia with humorous puns questioning attitudes towards violence, commemoration and national identity.

Rita Duffy will also present new work around the iconic nationalist figure of Maud Gonnne and her writings on evictions witnessed in the west of Ireland.

CCI
  • Opening Thursday, September 15, 2016 6:30 PM → 8 PM
05 Paris 5 Zoom in 05 Paris 5 Zoom out

5, rue des Irlandais

75005 Paris

T. 01 58 52 10 30 — F. 01 58 52 10 99

www.centreculturelirlandais.com

Cardinal Lemoine
Place Monge

Opening hours

Tuesday – Saturday, 2 PM – 6 PM
Late night on Wednesday until 8 PM
Sunday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Closed Mondays and bank holidays

Admission fee

Free entrance

The artist

  • Rita Duffy