In 2026, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Bétonsalon launched a new residency exchange programme, in partnership with the Embassy of France in Ireland, Dublin City Council and the Embassy of Ireland in France. Each year, the programme enables an artist living or working in France to spend two months in Dublin, with access to a studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. In parallel, an artist living or working in Dublin is supported to spend two months in Paris at the Centre international d’accueil et d’échanges des Récollets, with the support of Bétonsalon. Each artist receives a €5,000 grant, as well as personalised professional and curatorial support from both organisations to develop their research.
Alexandre Caretti (FR) and Colm Keady-Tabbal (IE/LB) are the two recipient artists of the 2026 edition of this residency exchange programme.

Residency project

In 1952 Claude Lévi-Strauss convened a research seminar on the use of mathematics in the human sciences at UNESCO in Paris. Funded in part by the Ford Foundation and and MIT’s Center for International Studies, its participants included linguist Émile Benveniste, psychologist Jean Piaget, mathematicians George-Théodule Guilbaud and Jacques Riguet, information theorist Benoît Mandelbrot and Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, physicist Pierre Auger, and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
This seminar serves as a point of departure for a number of developments Colm Keady-Tabbal is interested in: the reception and influence of information theory, cybernetics and related form of mathematical formalisation within the so-called human sciences in postwar France; and the institutional, financial and geopolitical structures that facilitated the movement of these ideas from military and industrial contexts to the analysis of language, culture, literature and social relations.