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Forward pass /John Lalor - 28 March - 20 April 2008 -
Preview: Friday 28th March, 6 - 9 pm. Prior to the preview there
will be a discussion between Jonanthan Lahey Dronsfield (Reader of
philosophy-art Reading University London) and John Lalor at 5 pm in
the gallery.


Still/Photo- 'very dark skies over social housing -the film'

Image: Marie Bellot Bellonotti/John Lalor
Musique: Vincent Sicot Vantalon
Produced by Frank William Fromy (art-can 14) Paris.

JOHN LALOR
FORWARD PASS

Preview: Friday 28th March, 6 - 9 pm. Prior to the preview there
will be a discussion between Jonanthan Lahey Dronsfield (Reader of
philosophy-art Reading University London) and John Lalor at 5 pm in
the gallery. All welcome.

Pallas Contemporary Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition
by Paris-based Irish artist John Lalor. Lalor's work contains video,
installation, poster/text, maquette building, and painting in multiples
(the democratic paintings series), which reveal a linear landscape to
the expense of the singular image. These include three new works, two
of which are based on the Pallas gallery space. The artist's texts are
written in English and in French; his concerns are about making marks
in an inexplicable universe, the significance of words and also
journeys through painting, film and text.

Among other projects he is currently working on is his third short
film entitled 'BNF/MK2 - an urban incident'. This twenty minute
production concerns the Dominique Perrault designed four glass towers,
evoking Samuel Beckett, Jean Luc Godard, Buster Keaton and the MK2
cinema in the 13th arrondissement Paris.

John Lalor attended Limerick School of Art, Ireland. He has lived
in France since 1988 and has exhibited widely in both countries,
most recently in Temple Bar Gallery Dublin; Groupe Laura in Tours;
Glassbox, and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, along with film-screenings
at Centre d'art internationale Vassiviere; La Femis cinema with
Pointligneplan, Paris and Temporarycontemporary, London. He was an
active member and director of Glassbox, a pioneering artists-run
space, from 2004-07 in Paris, and co-produced issue no 5 of the
independent fanzine 'Feint' edited by Vaari Claffey.
Further links for John Lalor:
http://groupelaura.free.fr

Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield is Reader in Theory & Philosophy of
Art, University of Reading, and sits on the Forum for European
Philosophy at the London School of Economics. He has published
many articles in the area of contemporary continental philosophy
and art theory, and on the relation of art practice to ethics,
in particular art's resistance to ethics. He is currently writing
a book with Thomas Hirschhorn and Marcus Steinweg on Headlessness.

Pallas Contemporary Projects focuses on the exchange of Irish and
international artists with a strong conceptual approach working
in different media. Pallas is intrinsically connected with the
artistic process of production - exhibitions evolve in relation
to the idiosyncratic specifics of our gallery space and artists
benefit from an extended period of on-site work ahead of their
public exhibition.

Preview: Friday 28th March, 6 - 9 pm. Prior to the preview there
will be a discussion between Jonanthan Lahey Dronsfield (Reader of
philosophy-art Reading University London) and John Lalor at 5 pm in
the gallery.
This talk has been supported by the Arts Council, Travel and
Training, inward mobility award.

Pallas Contemporary Projects
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