Kendell Geers
The Second Coming

The Second Coming (Do What Thou Wilt) is an exhibition by South-African artist Kendell Geers at Rua Red in Dublin, inspired by the work of W.B. Yeats. The exhibition foresees the resurgence of the Irish Hell Fire Club, which was once a meeting place for local legends of occult practices and demonic manifestations. It was a mid-18th esoteric century English and Irish private club. Its members came from high society, often holding political office. Its main activity consisted of a Parody of religion, where the supposed president was the Devil himself.

This Second Coming is celebrated within the galleries at Rua Red in Tallaght and is an exhibition that brings together the poet William Butler Yeats, with his Daemon and anti-self, the Berber son of Muhammad. They first met at a séance in Cambridge House on 9 May 1912 when Leo spoke with a strong Irish accent, giving Yeats the keys to unlocking the doors of his perception. The Second Coming is a Temple of enlightenment in the form of an exhibition, a gallery of Solar consciousness sent through the prism that is the dark side of the moon “Per Amica Silentia Lunae”. Following Yeats’ strict instructions, the exhibition is part of a religious system more or less logically worked out, a form of poetry.

For Geers, Art is our only hope in an age of materialism and artificial acceleration. The role of the artist is to make the invisible visible. This is what I wanted to highlight in the conception of this video, playing with geometrical forms positive or negative, upside down or inside out. I have composed the ambient sound in the same spirit. A nagging vibration which raise continuously until the doors of the Temple are crossed, and an accelerating agression that can take the viewer deeply in the vortex down to the abyss of his inner self.