The Infinite Line

I finally got a chance to see "THE INFINITE LINE' featuring three Cork artists, Cassandra Eustace, Roseanne Lynch and Richard Forrest was delightfully curated by Sophie Behal & Maeve Lynch. The exhibition presented a very minimalist approach, upon entering the space on Sullivan's Quay, Cork, you feel like you are going into a world of solitude. Stunningly lit, the connection and relationship between the light the sculpture objects and the space, added to the essence of the exhibition and thereafter echoed in the delicacy and sharpness of Roseanne Lynch's photography.

Beyond the HA-HA - Not to be confused with laughter

Featuring work by Bénédicte Coleman, Judy Fisher, Helen O' Donovan, Siobhain Steele and my personal favourite Diarmaid O' Sullivan, 'Beyond the Ha-Ha, Not to be Confuses with Laughter' was another structured and well-thought curated exhibition at Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork.  With particular focus upon the work of Diarmaid, I really enjoy his tender paint palette; with a concept of such banality, his method and presentation give great power to the mundane objects, giving them a real place in time.

Haroon Mirza - 'Are Jee Be?' at IMMA

The work of Mirza occupies the gallery space individually in that she is site-specific. Mirza allows the video work to interpret the environment, looking again at relativity.

Samuel Beckett

"I realized that Joyce had gone as far as one could in the direction of knowing more, [being] in control of one’s material. He was always adding to it; you only have to look at his proofs to see that. I realized that my own way was in impoverishment, in lack of knowledge and in taking away, in subtracting rather than in adding."

Samuel Beckett

Destino

'Destino' by Walt Disney & Salvador Dali
Collaboration in 1946, finally resolved in 2010

Looking at the transfiguration of imagery and the acknowledgement of how our minds consciously establish subsequent perceptions. This collaboration also highlights how the 'suggestive' image is as important as the literal.

The Life and Death of 9413: a Hollywood Extra (1928)

Directed by Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapić

Un Chien Andalou (1928)

A Film by:

Luis Bunuel

Salvador Dali

Actions - John Scott

Totem: illustrated one being recreated to act as two characters in this case me (him) and you (audience). Its simple approach to human behavior interaction and identity related well to the audience.

Kotatkona

Space very theatrical. Very well curated art work installation featuring a collection of objects under timed spotlights that sequentially changed in response to the recorded monologue playing in or near the objects. The lighting was very appropriate however the relativity between sound and object seemed a little too ambiguous. There is a great richness to the space. The elements of theatre removed the importance to the time and space. The directional light focused the viewer to particular areas of the space which involved and guided the mind of the viewer.