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<<EME, Niamh
McCann, 1 October - 1st November 2004.
<<EME, Niamh McCann,
1 October - 1st November 2004.
Pallas Heights, Number 30 Sean Tracey House, Buckingham Street, D1.
<<<EME is the first project in a series of new works by McCann exploring
the
complexities of surface: creating hybrid visual emblems of protection, aggression
and identity. This is an area of exploration with regards to image, word and
text,
and more specifically text and word as image. Presenting a graphic hybrid
of
international cultural signage - a visual language as distinct from the language
of letters. The works at Pallas Heights look to the surface of this language,
and the influence of particular cultural contexts, not because the substance
is
without depth but because the surface moulds the substance. The project uses
the particular architecture of Pallas Heights as framework to parallel our
assimilation of imagery to engage ones perception and form understanding.
Previous exhibitions have included: Total Eclipse
of…. Planet 22, (Geneva, Switzerland,
2001), Transmediale - Berlin Kurfürstendamm, (Public Arts Fest. Berlin,
Germany 2004),
Come In - Vienna International Apartment, (Austria, 2003), Appropriation -
Ormeau
Baths Gallery, (Belfast, 2002), EV+A - Limerick City Gallery (Limerick, 2001/2),
Perspective 2000 - Ormeau Baths Gallery (Belfast, 2000) Dopplarity - Bank
Underground
Station (2000, as organiser/ curator as well as exhibitor). McCann was recipient
of the Perspective 2000 Absolut Exhibition award, the EV+A 2002, travel award
and will be participating in an exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art,
Tsrku, Finland in 2005.