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
CREDITS
Curator/ Commussioner: Nora Hickey M’Schili, Director Centre Culturel Irlandais
Video: Clara Charrin
Production and Printing: Ryan Boatwright, Atelier Boba