A Russian artist is looking for Dubliners to donate their own blood to sculptures for a new exhibition that opens on Valentine's Day.
Andrei Molodkin's Bloodline show will run for five weeks at Rua Red in Tallaght.
Bloodline is a visceral and provocative installation highlighting the power of political statements with sculptural works pumped full of donated human blood.
He told Dublin Live the work will explore the ideas of censorship and power using striking images and phrases pumped full of blood.
He said: "It will be sentences I take from quotes and different positions of censorship of ideas that are shocking or repressive. I'm trying to understand the world in which we live and trying to communicate in that same language."
Andrei's previous work, Young Blood, which was shown at BPS22 Museum in Belgium last year saw him collaborate with prosecuted drill musicians from London.
Bloodline shifts the focus away from lyrics European Governments deem unsafe for popular consumption, towards the language of terror, using blood from local social and political groups.
He regularly uses blood in his work as it symbolises life.
He said: "We live because of blood but in our kind of culture blood can give particularly scary ideas."
Anyone brave enough to take part can donate their blood at a preview evening on Friday, February 14.
A qualified nurse will be on site to administer the procedure.
Andrei added: "You give your blood for the art. So when people come it will be empty at first but it will be added to one by one because it will be filled by the blood of the people that donate the blood so you will be really part of the work."
