A Day Like Any Other

New Galleries, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin Tues-Sat 10am- 5.30pm (Wed 10.30am- 5.30pm), Sun noon-5

New Galleries, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham, Dublin Tues-Sat 10am- 5.30pm (Wed 10.30am- 5.30pm), Sun noon-5.30pm Nov 16-Jan 29 01-6129900

There's a strong participatory element to Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander's work. She could be described as a conceptual artist, but don't let that put you off: her pieces are user-friendly rather than dry and theoretical. In A Day Like Any Other, a mid- career retrospective, visitors will be invited to contribute to the exhibition.

Neuenschwander has staged I Wish Your Wishat several venues since 2003. You are invited to take a ribbon bracelet, imprinted with one of hundreds of wishes from past participants, so long as you, in turn, write down your own wish on a slip of paper. In her video The Tenant, the camera follows a soap bubble as it seems to magically wander through a deserted house. For another participatory work, First Love, a police sketch artist makes portrait drawings based on visitors' descriptions of their first loves.

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Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne is visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times