Still from the live fracturing on the opening night of In the Making: 10 Years of Ormond Art Studios
28th Nov - 1st Dec
Projection Installation
Exhibiting at the Dublin Civic Trust Building, 18 Ormond Quay, as part of the Ormond Art Studios’s exhibition In the Making: Celebrating 10 Years at Ormond Art Studios.
Fractured Space is a site specific, projection piece. The space we are exhibiting in is a beautifully restored house, brought back from ruin and into the past, frozen as it once was. Because of this, it’s not possible to interact with the space as I normally would - a gallery space is made to be a canvas that an artist can manipulate to show their ideas and creations to their desired effect. 18 Ormond Quay is a space all of its own.
Exhibiting in a space that I couldn’t interact with in the typical way lead me to want to create a piece that would change the space without touching it. Previously, I created Fractured Landscapes, a series where I manipulated images to create new places, reflecting on the strange pressures I had placed on the landscape to provide me with a sense of place and connection. Evolving this fracturing to create a new space within the exhibition space felt like a way I could combine this place that I couldn’t change with my work.
For the opening night this will be a live piece, changing as people interact with it, allowing them to mould the artwork and the space. For the remainder of the exhibition it will be a fractured video I filmed during our time installing our work for the exhibition.
As it says at the top, this exhibition is open until December 1st, from 12:00 - 17:00 each day. For more information about it, check out the Ormond Art Studios website.