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Via, Susan Gogan,
Sally Timmons, Sarah O'Toole. March 24th - 15th May 2006.
Via, Susan Gogan, Sally Timmons, Sarah O'Toole.
March 24th - 15th May 2006.
Pallas Heights, Number 30 Sean Tracey House, Buckingham Street, D1.
Via is a collaborative artist-led initiative,
created to explore
through art, issues surrounding history, culture and art practice
within the context of the changing identity of Dublin city. Previously
Via has facilitated artists to produce innovative works and activities
within this context, however this is the first time that the three
founding members of Via, Susan Gogan, Sarah O'Toole and Sally Timmons,
have exhibited together as Via's core group.
http://www.via.ie
Susan Gogan uses large-scale photographic works
to examine our relationships
with the urban and suburban spatial environments within which we live,
work and communicate with each other. Her photographic piece that forms
part of the final Pallas Heights show (dis)places an idealised cinematic
representation of youth (in the form of Lolita) within an industrial
space, disrupting our preconceived notion of where she belongs. A lighting
installation designed specifically for this exhibition, creates gaps in
the symbolic surface of the image, extending it into 3-dimensional space.
Sally Timmons will document her experience
of the last days of Sean Tracey
House by 'drawing' the view from the top floor of the soon to be demolished
building. By converting the top floor bedroom into a working Camera Obscura,
the artist has constructed a simple optical tool as an aid to her drawing
within which the viewer will experience the transferring of light through
a
pinhole in the form of a projected inverted image. Prior to the building's
demise Timmons will continue to work on the 'living drawings' inside the
darkened space on Thursdays and Saturdays during the exhibition, throughout
March and April.
Sarah O'Toole. 'House' allows for thought on
universal ideas of the home
while also interacting with the physical surroundings of the home it is
situated in. 'Curtain' both interacts and makes reference to the home
recalling times past in a now vacant place.