Sharon Murphy

Mise en abyme

Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris

07 Nov –
20 Dec 2024

Commissioned and Curated by CCI Directrice, Nora Hickey M’Schilli.

Opening In-coversation artist interviewed nterview with Trish Lambe, Director, Photo Museum Ireland (7 Nov)

https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/cci-online/conversation-entre-la-photographe-sharon-murphy-et-trish-lambe

https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/exhibitions-events/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 commission of photographic works is presented in association with Photo Museum Ireland.