Bizarre Bazaar: Human Possibilities

26th November till 18th December (Thurs-Sat 12h-18h)

in the Pallas Contemporary Projects

111 Grangegorman Road Lower, Dublin 7

Human Possibilities is a series of drawings/paintings in Chinese ink on A3 paper inspired by profile pictures form facebook. The profile picture is designed for a passport photo so that one can display a recognisable image of oneself what this virtual space is used for, is so much more, so much richer and infitely more meaningful.

In the Pallas these imagees are arranged a floating ceiling. A facebook wall without names just images.

Opening Thursday at 19h.

chinese ink A3

From the studio to the exhibition

Art Chartrons 4th-14th November 2010

le Garage Moderne, 1 Rue des Etrangers, Bordeaux. www.arts-chartrons.info

open everyday from 14h till 19h.

Vernissage, Wednesday, 10th November at 19h.

The paintings are large free standing installations who's structure is in dialogue with the building's architecture.

Using two different axes, I question who we are and how we articulate our idenities referencing the history of painting through the portraits of the Kennedy brothers and the uncertainty of what is represented. On the othre hand, I paint images from interior design catelogues creating furniture which represents furniture.

The Kennedy's have a different signification for different people and I find the gap that exists between their images and who they were fascinating. Young, beautiful, dynamic, arrogant, spoilt, womanizers: the question isn't to know who they really were but does it matter or is the image everything?

Living rooms and offices are the intimate settings for our very own exhibition. While before these spaces were constructed from inheritences, gifts and from furniture either made by ourselves or to order. Today, while they are our personal property they are no longer personal objects. The market allows us to not only appropriate furniture but the lifestyles in which we wish to idenitify ourselves or project ourselves.

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Partons de deux axes, je nous interroge sur qui nous sommes et comment nous articulons nos identités en abordant l’histoire de la peinture à travers les portraits des frères Kennedys et l’incertitude de ce que cela représente. De l’autre coté je peins des images d’intérieurs provenant de catalogues, un meuble qui représente des meubles.

Les Kennedys ont des significations différentes pour les gens et je trouve fascinant le gouffre qui existe entre leurs images et qui ils étaient. Jeunes, beaux, dynamiques, arrogants, gâtés et dragueurs: la question n’est pas de savoir qui ils étaient vraiment, mais est-ce que cela avait de l’importance ou c’est l’image qui compte pour tout?

Les salons et les bureaux sont des espaces intimes qui sont nos expositions personnelles. Jadis, ils étaient construits des héritages, des dons et des meubles faits par soi-même ou sur commande. Aujourd’hui, ils sont construits non pas personnellement mais avec le marché qui nous permet d’acquérir pas simplement des meubles mais des styles de vie auxquels nous pouvons nous identifier ou nous projeter.