Sharon Murphy - Mise en Abyme
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.