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Sharon Murphy - Mise en Abyme

  • Friday, November 8 - Friday, December 20
  • Mon-Sun : 14h-18h
    Wed : 14h-20h
  • Admission free
  • Vernissage : Thursday November 7, 18h30-21h

Sharon Murphy’s new body of work focuses on Parisian carousels and theatrical décor during their moments of stillness and silence. It stems from what the artist describes as a ‘longstanding interest in staged spaces and the performative in photography’. Inhabited by inanimate painted horses, decorative frontispieces and drapery, these scenes become the point of departure for a wider exploration of fictive realism, the tension between hidden and revealed, negative and positive, illusion and disillusion. A mise en abyme of the practice of photography - itself a constructed fiction - and a delving into Freud’s notion of the uncanny, this exhibition at the Centre Culturel Irlandais evokes both enchantment and a pang of unease.

This special new commission of photographic works, presented in association with Photographic Museum Ireland, evokes enchantment and a pang of unease as the artist explores Parisian carousels and theatrical decors.

Don't miss the vernissage of the exhibition on Thursday, November 7 from 18h30 to 21h.