Uncertain State: Photography & the crisis in Ireland
How is photography responding to the crisis? Uncertain State looks at how photographic artists are representing this period of austerity and uncertainty in Ireland. Their work addresses important issues at the heart of where we are now: contested and hidden histories, effects of the global financial crisis and the radically altered social and physical landscapes. The ten artists in Uncertain State go beyond surface readings to reflect the emerging concerns in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland: the treatment of asylum seekers; institutional abuse; sexual abuse; emigration; the legacy of the property crash; identity; disadvantage & marginalisation; and the legacy of conflict.
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#photo #photographie #exposition #Irlande #crise
Travaux:
Asylum Archive documents the housing provision for Asylum Seekers around Ireland in the series Direct Provision Hostels
–-> #asile #centres_d'accueil_pour_requérants_d'asile #réfugiés
Eoin Ó Conaill’s new work Reprieve surveys green field sites saved from planned development by the property crash
–-> #champs #urbanisme #propriétés
Doug DuBois’ compelling body of work My Last Day at Seventeen offers a somewhat fictional documentary account of adolescence in Cobh, Cork;
–-> #adolescence
David Farrell’s An Archaeology of the Present records the topography of post crisis Ireland;
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#topographie
Kim Haughton’s sensitive investigation of child abuse – In Plain Sight – presents powerful collaborative portraits of abuse survivors;
–-> #viol #enfant
Paddy Kelly’s photographs of IRA training sites in his series Bogland reflect his attempt to emotionally identify with his father while addressing issues of identity, memory and place
–-> #identité #mémoire #place #lieu
Lauren McGookin uses photography to gain an understanding of her own community’s Loyalist culture in her series Tales and Whispers
–-> #identité #communauté
Paul Nulty charts his mother’s experience as a returning emigrant attempting to settle again in the midlands in his series I’m Looking at our Place
–-> #migration #migration_de_retour #retour
Pete Smyth revisits his portrait of people in his own community in Tallaght after a period of 21 years in his series A View from the Dearth
–-> #communauté #Tallaght
Una Spain records poignant traces from St. Brigid’s de-commisioned Victorian institution for the mentally ill in Ballinasloe.
–-> #hopital #hopital_psychiatrique #Ballinasloe
