The Lie of the Land at the Gallery of Photography,
Dublin, Ireland.
Inaugural Exhibition/Touring Exhibition
12 October - 14 November 1995
The Lie of the land presents the work of six
Irish photographers: John Duncan, Anthony Haughey, Padraig Murphy,
Mick O'Kelly, Paul Seawright and Victor Sloan.
The clichéd representation of Ireland, fostered for
decades by native advertising and tourism were only too easily
accepted as a comforting representation of reality. However the
social and political upheavals of the last number of years demand a
new visual grammar. Such clichés are now seen to be inadequate in
Ireland today. This is our point of departure.
All of the work reflects the complexity of living in
Ireland today. The artists carry with them the cultural baggage
which assists and enriches their image making. Essentially we see
the work in this exhibition as not being overtly Irish, far removed
as it is from traditional visual notions of Irishness.
This exhibition has been curated with Ute Eskildsen
of Folkwang
Museum Essen, Germany.
The exhibition will be touring Ireland, England,
France and U.S.A. The large scale of this exhibition derives from
our desire to make a major impact both nationally and
internationally, in our new custom-built space. This will be the
first group Irish exhibition to tour internationally since Out of
the Shadows. Centre de la Photographie in Paris is showing the
work in April/May 1996.
Gallery
Talk: Wednesday 8 November at 3.00pm. Liam Kelly, author of ‘Art in
Northern Ireland’ in conversation with artist Victor Sloan.
Gallery of Photography
Meeting House Square
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
Ireland
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