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2023
Billboards and posters, digital and paper
1 of
4 Tenets for Europe
Moving image: 192 x 288px, 704 x 960px mp4 video, RGB colour, duration 0:10; 1080 x 1920px mp4 video, RGB colour, duration 0:05 and 0:10; 1920 x 1080 mp4 video, RGB colour, duration 0:30
Static digital: 720 x 1056px, 864 x 432px, 1080 x 1920px, 1600 x 400px jpeg, RGB colour.
Paper: 1350 x 2980mm, 1375 x 2905mm CMYK colour
15 September 2023
Denmark, Finland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, UK
Prize the Beauty of Justice Above All Else
was presented in English and Irish in the Republic of Ireland.
One of the reasons for the Irish language version was the artist's desire to 'bring a work home' to Eire.
In his mid-twenties, Firrell encountered James Joyce's
Giacomo Joyce
in an edition reprinted by Faber & Faber (1989) from sixteen handwritten pages by Joyce. At the same time, he also read Samuel Beckett's
Worstward Ho
(John Calder, 1992) Beckett's penultimate novella, written in English.
The artist received these works as masterclasses in linguistic precision and brevity. 'For the first time, my eyes were opened to how much it was possible to say with how little, and to the expressive power generated by economy and compression of thought.'
Cuir Luach Ar Áilleacht Na Córa Thar Gach Uile Ní
was intended as an acknowledgement of the importance of Irish culture in the artist's development, and at the same time, a means of joining the cultural milieu that gave rise to Joyce and Beckett's formidable modernist works.
