Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, is pleased to announce The List, an exhibition of new work by Paul Seawright. This will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Ireland since Volunteer at Kerlin Gallery, 2011.

In The List, Paul Seawright uncovers a contested landscape that continues his interest in city spaces and their relationship to invisible fractures in society. His photographs from across America's rust belt reveal neglected neighborhoods where derelict vehicles are parked on patchy lawns, and rusted wire fences surround recently repossessed homes or concealed rear yards. Typically people are absent, yet marks of their presence are everywhere – scratched on walls, obscured by closed curtains or glimpsed through motel windows and dense trees. Claustrophobic vistas reveal frayed clapboard homes on the far side of blackened waste ground; this is the landscape of the convicted and dispossessed. Theirs is a liminal world, where legal restrictions define and prohibit them from establishing a permanent residence within a prescribed distance from a lengthy list of public buildings. These geographic limitations create unintended clusters of ex-offenders, often in small rural North American towns, where those on the list are hidden in plain sight.

The exhibited works move between the type of prosaic landscape familiar in Seawright’s work to black and white details of plants, fences and water damaged walls. These photographic gestures extend a narrative, where everything is dysfunctional. This is the third in a series of works Seawright has produced in the USA, where the landscape of the American city is deconstructed and the thin veneer of positivism and idealism is peeled back to expose an alternative vision of the North American city.

Paul Seawright’s solo exhibitions include Portland Art Museum, Oregon (2005); National Museum of Wales, Cardiff (2004); Imperial War Museum, London, and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2003); Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2002); Photographers' Gallery, London (1995). In 2003, he represented Wales at the 50th Venice Biennale. Selected group exhibitions include Changing States at Bozar Centre for Fine Art, Brussels (2013); Fall Out: War and Conflict in the British Council Collection at Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Teaching Photography at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2010); Atlante Italiano 07 at MAXXI, Rome, and How We Are at Tate Britain, London (2007). Seawright is represented in numerous private and public collections including Tate, London, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Imperial War Museum, London, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Arts Council of Ireland, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Collection Agnes b, Paris, Art Institute of Chicago and International Center of Photography, New York, among others.