THERE THERE is a photographic event in Cork City, curated by Stag & Deer and launching on Thursday, October 18th 2012, 6 pm with the opening of Viviane Sassen’s Parasomnia at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland. THERE THERE will bring more than 30 international, national and local lens based artists under one banner. There’ll …
Miriam O’Connor | Attention Seekers – A solo show at Galleri Image, Denmark
Miriam O‘ Connor’s beautiful series „Attention Seekers“ (2010-11) will have a solo show at Galleri Image from January 06th – February 12th, 2012. Galleri Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark. OPENING Friday 6th January 16-19 / The artist will be present.
Miriam O’Connor | Attention Seekers
Produced over a period of two years, Attention Seekers are a personal portrayal and playful response to everyday scenes, arbitrary spaces and people encountered by photographer Miriam O’ Connor.
While the ordinary or the everyday are habitually tied up with concepts of familiarity and routine, it is here that O’ Connor discovers infinite possibilities for image making, slicing out its details which petition for attention and assimilate allure. The series is characterised by its fragmentary nature, where the interplay of colour, form, scale and sequencing exhibit ambiguous clues and mischievous impressions of O’ Connor’s voyages into the familiar terrain of the everyday. (mehr …)