Four is pleased to present 'It's a roller coaster', new work by Rhona Byrne hosted by Kerlin Gallery in Dublin. In Kerlin's private viewing room, Byrne has built a full-scale section of a wooden roller coaster. The tracks cut through the space as though looping through the floor of and re-emerging, before cutting through the back wall and disappearing off into the city. It offers a heady and vertiginous way out of the gallery, a kind-of nerve-racking adventure. Byrne also presents the early results of a collaborative research project with renowned environmental and investigative psychologist, David Canter. This work is an exploration of the relationship between behaviour and experience and the built and natural environment. In a film of a discussion about meaning and space, Canter reflects, amongst other things, on how galleries operate in relation to his idea of 'rules of place'. Rhona Byrne makes objects; site-specific, gallery and context-based installations; films; publications and collaborative event-based projects. These projects focus on the interplay between people and their surrounding environment at both macro and micro levels. Byrne's work explores and engages with the multilayered surfaces and workings of the built environment and navigates intangible and transient layers of physical, mental and social space. This exhibition runs from 8th August until 6th September.
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