soft listings

Catalyst Arts, Belfast

6 June – 6 July 2024

Eslam Abd El Salam, Phillip McCrilly, Tara McGinn, Sorcha McNamara

photography by Simon Mills

‘ soft listings is about;

wander-walking, slow looking, soft conversations, tactile learning/making, active listening, building relationships, creating inactive/active spaces (pockets of breath where things can breathe/unfurl), trying new things, reviving old things, enjoying taste, recalling smells…

 soft listings approaches the gallery, and the process of exhibition-making, as a space that holds and supports practices, allowing them to slowly unfold, breathe, and inhabit the space. The exhibition presents works by Eslam Abd El Salam, Phillip McCrilly, Tara McGinn, and Sorcha McNamara: four artists working in different mediums but with similar sensitivities, in the form of visual, sculptural, aural, and edible art.

 The project was developed in collaboration and conversation with the four artists and Catalyst Arts Co-Director, Silvia Koistinen. The process welcomed the re-imagining of existing works along with the development of site-responsive works - weaving new and old together. ’

funded by Arts Council NI.