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Vernissage of Photo Exhibition: Sharon Murphy

  • Thursday November 7
  • 5:30pm - 9pm
  • Admission free

Dining provided by the foodtruck Burger Boss.

The Mediathèque will be open all evening.

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.

At 5:30pm, just before the opening of the vernissage, a conversation between Sharon Murphy and Trish Lambe, director of Photo Museum Ireland (admission free – reservation recommended – conversation in English) will take place. During the vernissage, the artist in residence, Shane Hynan, will discuss his photographic project Beneath | Beofhód. The film “Changing States”, a panorama of contemporary Irish photography commissioned by Photo Museum Ireland, will be projected throughout the evening. At 8pm, the vernissage will be followed by a folk-electro afterparty by Mohammad Syfkhan.

On-site dining by Burger Boss.

In addition: a very short walk from the CCI, at 221 rue Saint-Jacques, the photographer Roseanne Lynch will be opening her show Façonner la lumière at the Galerie Adrian Bondy-Mind’s Eye (exhibition open until Dec 15).