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The exhibition System of a Down gathers together 47 artworks, by 27 artists, from different nationalities, generations and cultural backgrounds. It was mounted between the 7th and the 11th of September 2015.

The first intervention in the space involved tracing a grid which contrasts with the gallery's architecture. The grid imagines a modernist development of Dublin based on the model of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The intersection of the grid with the gallery's floor plan produced areas that the exhibition organizers named 'rooms'.

At a later stage, a number of display devices …