‘The portraits capture the intricacies of self-presentation and highlight a young woman’s discomfort...
Dragana Jurišić, Ruth Medjber, Audrey Gillespie, Michael Hanna, Eva O’Leary, Pádraig Spillane, Conor Clinch, Hazel Coonagh, Megan Doherty, Vittoria Colonna, Cáit Fahey, Ayesha Ahmad and Niamh Swanton.
SATURATION: the everyday transformed will explore remarkable bodies of work created by a young generation of artists who use photography to explore lives played out in front of them, often creating or conveying a heightened experience through the use of colour.
The exhibition will embrace aspects of social media, street photography, music and fashion photography with elements of the documentary tradition to make for a display that is light-hearted, if sometimes claustrophobic. Inevitably it will reflect, if often only accidently, major changes in both society and technology, how photographs are taken, shared and consumed.
SATURATION: the everyday transformed will focus on photography of contemporary life at the intersection of the quotidian, or everyday and the fantastic or even surreal. It will explore what Susan Sontag termed ‘Everyday life apotheosized…the kind of beauty that only the camera reveals’.
Curated by William Laffan and Dawn Williams
Supported by Pat McDonnell Paints.
‘The portraits capture the intricacies of self-presentation and highlight a young woman’s discomfort...
'I approach everything as an absolute outsider. It is the only way I can break so many rules.'
‘All image surfaces are ripples of thoughts and forces that shape and comprise contemporary experience.'
“During the summers of 2020 and 2021, Vis island provided shelter to my friends and I, offering some semblance of normality in a world becoming increasingly inhospitable. The underwater world became a place of play, joy and healing. I am looking forward to having my work exhibited in SATURATION: the everyday transformed and seeing the exhibition […]
“It is exciting to be part of the exhibition SATURATION: the everyday transformed, and I am looking forward to seeing the work installed in the Crawford Art Gallery.” Michael Hanna’s ‘A Living Colour Index’ is a photo series produced in response to the days and weeks blending together during the first Covid lockdown in Northern […]
In this video, Ruth Medjber (aka Ruthless Imagery) introduces us to ‘WORSHIP’, an immersive visual and audio experience as part of SATURATION: the everyday transformed at Crawford Art Gallery. Medjber’s homage to Ireland's live music-loving culture is presented through photographs of 'larger-than-life-sized’ crowd scenes which are synchronised with a mesmerising lighting display, designed by Conor Biddle, […]
In this video, Audrey Gillespie introduces us to her ‘This Hurts’ series, part of SATURATION: the everyday transformed at Crawford Art Gallery. “This exhibition carries an array of emotive work as well as being rich in colour and conception – being close to my own work’s motives, I can imagine that this exhibition will highlight […]
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