Rua Red

For the artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin, contemporary reality seems paradoxical and open to all kinds of interpretations. At times, they observe and analyse it from perspectives rarely seen, beyond conventional viewpoints. At other times, they push its logic to the extreme, challenging the very notions of obstacles, barriers, or limits. Sometimes they treat it as if it were a malleable and porous material. And sometimes, as in this project, they introduce an external element that gradually transforms its nature, its narratives, and above all, its social relationships.

In 2011, the artists collected drawings of fate lines on the palms of drug addicts they met at Toxin, a legal injection centre in Luxembourg. Under the title Fate Will Tear Us Apart, these fate lines - enlarged to the size of the exhibition space and reproduced in white neon lights - appeared on the wall like lightning bolts during a storm. This unique form of a ‘Human Lightning Field’ illustrated how what tears them apart also tears us apart, with their fractures becoming as terrifying as they were dramatic, as blinding as they were dazzling.

Thirteen years later, in Dublin, the artists have turned their attention to the rehabilitation processes at a harm reduction centre for drug addicts; looking at the inverse of the predetermined fates they had seen in Luxembourg.