Mirabilia
New work by Aoife Collins
17.01.2014 - 14.02.2014
Curated by Tom Keogh
Aoife Collins is concerned with the idea of glamour. Her interest is not solely related to beauty and fame, although both present themselves in her work. She works with the more sinister idea of glamour as a shape-shifting entity changing its form to mirror the thing most desired and feared by the viewer. Feared because we sense the possibility of losing ourselves to our most superficial longings.
For this exhibition in Izmir, Aoife has created new work concerned with the expectations placed upon certain images and objects surrounding the individual in contemporary life. She has chosen magazine advertisements, kitsch ornaments and samples of dazzlıng fabrics and beads to represent a certain everyday materiality which she then places under stress as the objects presented are delicately worked on, mutated or placed in anti-congrous predicaments. The straightforward disregard normally embedded in our interactions with these mass produced images, ‘objets d’art’ and decorative trimmings is exposed, as is the slippery language used by much of 20th century and contemporary art history to position our notions of what an Art work should be.
Aoife Collins
www.aoifecollins.com
Collins received a BA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, followed by an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She attended Skowhegan, Maine in 2006. Selected residencies include Location One, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Atlantic Art Centre, Florida; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland and A.I.R Kino Kino, Norway. Selected exhibitions include Tickling The Ivories, Flashpoint, Washington; There is No Release My Darling, The Process Room at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; With Words Like Smoke, Chelsea Space, London; Altered Sequence, E:vent, London; Lost in your eyes, Form Content, London; Wet eye, Location One, New York; Culture clash, Working Rooms, London; Comfort burn, Artspace, Buffalo; Phoenix park, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; ev+a, Limerick; Prelapsarian/here-and-now/postlapsarian, Goethe Institute, Dublin; Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and Permaculture, Project Gallery, Dublin.
New work by Aoife Collins
17.01.2014 - 14.02.2014
Curated by Tom Keogh
Aoife Collins is concerned with the idea of glamour. Her interest is not solely related to beauty and fame, although both present themselves in her work. She works with the more sinister idea of glamour as a shape-shifting entity changing its form to mirror the thing most desired and feared by the viewer. Feared because we sense the possibility of losing ourselves to our most superficial longings.
For this exhibition in Izmir, Aoife has created new work concerned with the expectations placed upon certain images and objects surrounding the individual in contemporary life. She has chosen magazine advertisements, kitsch ornaments and samples of dazzlıng fabrics and beads to represent a certain everyday materiality which she then places under stress as the objects presented are delicately worked on, mutated or placed in anti-congrous predicaments. The straightforward disregard normally embedded in our interactions with these mass produced images, ‘objets d’art’ and decorative trimmings is exposed, as is the slippery language used by much of 20th century and contemporary art history to position our notions of what an Art work should be.
Aoife Collins
www.aoifecollins.com
Collins received a BA from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, followed by an MA from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She attended Skowhegan, Maine in 2006. Selected residencies include Location One, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Atlantic Art Centre, Florida; Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland and A.I.R Kino Kino, Norway. Selected exhibitions include Tickling The Ivories, Flashpoint, Washington; There is No Release My Darling, The Process Room at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; With Words Like Smoke, Chelsea Space, London; Altered Sequence, E:vent, London; Lost in your eyes, Form Content, London; Wet eye, Location One, New York; Culture clash, Working Rooms, London; Comfort burn, Artspace, Buffalo; Phoenix park, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin; ev+a, Limerick; Prelapsarian/here-and-now/postlapsarian, Goethe Institute, Dublin; Perspective, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, and Permaculture, Project Gallery, Dublin.