John Graham
dal 16/4/2008 al 16/5/2008
Segnalato da
16/4/2008
John Graham
Green on red gallery, Dublin
His recent video projects have considered how reality is constructed and mediated through moving images. These works, both site-specific and narrative-based, are informed by an interest in film and how its formal devices become implicated in everyday life.
"Spectatorship is not a passivity that must be turned into activity. It is
our normal situation"
Jacques Ranciere
Green on Red Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by
John Graham. This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in Dublin and
with the Green on Red Gallery since 2003.
Recent video projects by John Graham have considered how reality is
constructed and mediated through moving images. These works, both
site-specific and narrative-based, are informed by an interest in film and
how its formal devices become implicated in everyday life.
ŒOpening Sequence Š¹ meditates on the dynamics of the exhibition process in
its creation and its viewing. John Graham sets the scene of his exhibition
through a doubling or mirroring effect, projecting footage that he
previously filmed within the gallery space a reflection of the gallery
back on itself .
A double projection and two narrated monitor sequences create a continous
visual and verbal dialogue. Narrators anticipate and interpret the viewer¹s
response. Graham¹s investigation of the nature and function of the gallery
space resists imposing a definitive version of events in favor of the unique
experience of each viewer.
John Graham was born in Dublin in 1962. He graduated from the National
College of Art and Design in 1993. In the same year he joined the print
workshop, Graphic Studio Dublin, and began to make and exhibit prints and
drawings. In 1997 he had his first solo exhibition in Japan at the
Yanagisawa Gallery in Urawa, Saitama. He has continued to exhibit regularly
in Japan.
He returned to NCAD to study for a masters in Fine Art Print in 2004. A
developing interest in film and digital technology led to a switch to Fine
Art Media and he completed his masters in 2006. His current work, primarily
in video, encages with ideas of everyday experience and how it merges with
cultural forms and rituals.
Preview: Thursday, April 17th 6 8pm
Green on red gallery
26 Lombard Street - Dublin
Free admission