The Triskel Arts Centre has officially launched its Phase 2 development, which features improved exhibition spaces and an overall streamlining of existing facilities.

Peter Hendrick shows upstairs in Gallery 1, with a photographic installation entitled Shadows of the American Dream. Although born in Ireland and based in New York, the artist's images are not peculiar to America or its collective ideology, since firstly, the scenes of urban/industrial dereliction which dominate have pandemic significance, and secondly, there are no implicit American cultural archetypes - rather, it is their absence which becomes the substance. The photographs are large and impressive in their own right, but Hendrick employs various structural devices for displaying them, such as building outward from the wall, painting backdrops which spread onto the ceiling, and most strikingly of all, the incorporation of coloured fluorescent lights. The combination of these elements helps to break down the impartiality of the lens and manifest the architectural nature of the subject. This includes the brilliantly composed view of railway tracks receding into the distance, the negative spaces once occupied by buildings, and a variety of industrial structures standing like hulking leviathans to a declining industrial age.

Generally the installational aspects succeed and the presentation is well executed and balanced - particularly the detail where the coloured fluorescent lights echo the predominate hues or tone of the individual prints. The largest piece, though, is a case against installation-styled presentation becoming too forceful, as a step, small oval mirror and a wide backdrop of black paint, suffocate the images. Still, this is a minor point and one which does not deflect from the overall strengths.

Runs until June 24th