Rua Red
WHEN STARS
COLLIDE
DOMNICK
SORACE
WHENSTARSCOLLIDE
DATES
03 OCTOBER
— 15 NOVEMBER
2025
When Stars Collide
Left behind from When Stars Collide, the gallery is now a transitional space, altered for just a while.
A tunnel leads you, and a voice holds you within.
When Stars Collide is a multimedia installation that reshapes the gallery floor with paths of sand and heaps of gravel, where an array of fallen stars and a decapitated bronze head reside. The head becomes both relic and narrator, voicing its dilemmas and contemplations: the embodiment of the night sky, recalled fragments of memory, inherited beliefs, the body it lost, its disappointments, and its hope, all while waiting… waiting for what comes next. Drifting between analysis and poetry, the head loops back and forth, reflecting upon the spectrum of existence within the space and time it currently occupies.
Together with its company of abstracted stars, the bronze objects resist with their density the intangibility of what they signify, attempting to unify the ephemerality of the macrocosm with grounded, weighty matter.
Visitors are invited into this suspended landscape, where matter, memory, and meaning collide, and where uncertainty and awe linger.
Exhibition Credits
- Actor/Voice-Actor
Gabriel Adewusi - Audio Producer
Bobby Aherne - Photographer
Kevin Collins - With special thanks to collaborators:
We are grateful to Katheryn Smyth and Elizeu Da Silva Rodrigues for their invaluable assistance, and to Karl Frederick Tiedt for sitting for a silicone face cast used in this exhibition. My thanks as well to Ciaran Patterson for his guidance in bronze casting. - Project supporters and sponsors
The artworks in this exhibition were made possible through the support of the Artist Bursary Award 2025 by South Dublin City Council, and the Diversity Award 2025 by Solstice Arts Centre in association with Creative Ireland.
Here is where I’ll rest
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Plás Parthalán
Tallaght, D24 KV8N
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