{un}familiar (2009/2010)
Red House Arts Center, Syracuse, NY USA - March 2010.
Galway Arts Centre, Ireland - June 2010.
A group exhibition featuring work by Michelle Browne, Benjamin de Búrca, Cecilia Danell, Vera Klute, Sabina Mac Mahon, and Julia Pallone curated by Maeve Mulrennan
The starting point for this exhibition was the curator's encounter with the research of Professor Olaf Blanke, from the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNCO) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Research on out of body experiences, disengagement from the real self and having a double was communicated to artists. Blanke's case studies proved the most stimulating. In responding to Blanke's texts the artists present work which explores the deconstruction of meaning, separation of the self, uncanny spaces and peoples efforts to understand and explain our world through imagery, icons, dreams and nightmares.
(extract from exhibition text written by Maeve Mulrennan)
Models
Based on locations featured in my video 'Doubles' (see video section).
Paintings based on my models
I worked with the idea of several stages of copying and systematically removing oneself from the original point of reference.
See pictures from the Arts Centre opening :here:
Watch a 5'00 min. extract from the video 'Doubles' :here:
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