GOMA, Waterford, January 2025. As part of f-project Re-Action exhibition.
“The ocean at your door, going to the the sea — let it come to you, drawing a fabric to contain the spilling wave, they break over the porch where a fish enters, a silver fish with large tail, you know it is inside now, and it roams under your dress, the conditions are right, this is no longer the world that once had you by the throat grasping for breath…”
There is another world but it is in this one.
-Paul Éluard
My work explores how the body, as both memory and vessel, distills layers of reality that shape our perception. Using darkroom techniques, Super 8 film, and lith printing, I create tactile, timeless images that challenge the viewer’s sense of what is concrete and fluid. In my photographic research, I seek moments where an ordinary object, transcends its material form becoming a ‘dream object.’ These are moments when perception shifts, when an object or scene resonates beyond its physical boundaries, connecting to a gesture of the unconscious.
It is in these “points of convergence,” the moments where meaning crystallises in the form of fleeting images, where I locate the quiddity — the essential core of things. It is through this convergence that the hidden is revealed, where the border between dream and reality becomes porous, and where meaning emerges through the subtle connections that exist beneath the surface. My work, then, is a reflection on perception itself — the act of seeing, of becoming attuned to the invisible currents that shape our reality.
In this space of exploration, the boundaries between self and other, public and private, are constantly shifting. My current inquiry involves the public perception of the work — how does an audience encounter the intimate and the personal, and how do they engage with the “hidden image”?
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