The Model is delighted to partner with the British Council in this centenary year of the 1916 Rising on an exhibition drawn from the British Council Collection. Art collections by their very nature rarely convey a definitive narrative of the development of artistic practice. In many ways they come into being hostages of fortune, with acquisitions dictated by the shifting economic, political and social concerns of their time. Each collection is a babble of riotous voices telling of the myriad concerns and questions at the heart of every individual artwork. Narrative threads once caught, quite often disappear, giving us glimpses but rarely the full story.

 

Ghosts of Other Stories explores works within the British Council Collection where threads of lost stories or forgotten histories flash momentarily into the light. Each work has at its heart an elusive or mysterious quality that speaks of a story passing into history untold, unheard or interrupted.

 

The exhibition includes works by Tomma Abts, Ed Atkins, Bank, Tacita Dean, Ryan Gander, Graham Gussin, Merlin James, Rosalind Nashashibi, Mike Nelson, Susan Philipsz, Wolfgang Tillmans, Phoebe Unwin, Rachel Whiteread and Cerith Wyn Evans.

 

Moving Pictures, our programme of artists' film programmed in collaboration with Film London, is showing every day during the exhibition. Programme 1 is screened at 11am and programme 2 at 1pm.

 

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  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
  • Installation view of Ghosts of Other Stories, a British Council Collection exhibition at The Model, Ireland, 2016
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Glossary

  • Film

    A transparent, flexible plastic material, usually of cellulose acetate or polyester, on which light-sensitive emulsion is coated, or on which an image can be formed by various transfer processes.