Border thinking has become a defining feature of the global social order in the twenty-first century. In Being a Border, art historian, critic, and theorist Nuit Banai writes on the...
In the light-filled Centre Gallery of Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, County Cork, behind layers of liner paper and white emulsion, lay, until recently, a very well-kept secret. One, Here,...
For this edition of PVA, we decided to focus on association football (soccer) – from essays on the aesthetics of football, to the systems of its governance, to how the game has...
PVA 15 is guest edited by Emma Dwyer. Ghosts, whether real or not, are haunting Emma Dwyer. Since she committed to guest-editing this edition of PVA, they have been appearing...
Paper Visual Art (PVA) began as an online journal of art criticism, established in 2009 by Niamh Dunphy. Now based between Dublin and Berlin. PVA began as a response to what was...
What is it about animals? – those creatures that keep us company, a figure in a memory or folktale, the shadowy presence in a photograph, or an ancient drawing on...
To inhabit a home means to leave traces; it is a place of self-expression, a place of one’s own. We collect and display what we choose: a print, a chipped...
You spin me round is a collection of essays, an essential mixtape that takes elements of music – songs, performances, albums, gigs – as points of departure. The writers reflect...
