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Sara Keating: Rest as resistance - how artists are taking stereotypes lying down

The Project Arts Centre’s group exhibition Sínte/Being Horizontal challenges the traditional representation of the human body as a singular, upright, able-bodied man

Áine O'Hara: the visual artist and designer, has been interested in the curative power of community and rest for some time

If you happen to visit Dublin’s Project Arts Centre gallery space this weekend, through the closed doors of the ground floor you might catch a glimpse of a group of people lying supine.

Snuggled up in sleeping bags with eye masks on, this collective of dreamers are participants in Áine O’Hara’s Nap Club, a radical intervention that prioritises the needs of the chronically ill and provides a frame for discussing the way in which the ...