Siobhan Hapaska.

SIOBHAN HAPASKA KERLIN GALLERY, DUBLIN BRYNE MCLAUGHLIN

Irish-born, London-based artist Siobhan Hapaska is known for her wilfully enigmatic sculptural and photo works that deal with violence, protest and an ongoing search for an indeterminate elsewhere. She takes up these themes once again in Cease Firing On All Fronts," her first major solo exhibition since representing Ireland at the 2001 Venice Biennale.

The installation reads like a narrative. Part-sculpture, part-photography, each element is a chapter in a dystopian whole. The exhibition opens with a sculpture of a taxidermied donkey fitted with riot-police armour. Behind the donkey is a stand of three …