Katrina Maguire
Ireland
Picture: a visible or visual image. A cinematograph film: (in pl) a cinematograph show or the building in which it is given. v.t. to depict, represent in a picture: to form a likeness of in the mind: to describe vividly in words.
Pictured-turing-tures: To make a visible representation or picture. To form a mental image of; visualise.
Picture-house-place: a building for cinematograph shows.
— Readers’ Digest Great Illustrated Dictionary (RDA, 1984)
Studying a man recounting memories from his youth, Picture House suggests a theatre space. Animated and expressive, the raconteur describes his experiences of going to a rural picture house during the late 1940s. The project examines the nature of how memories are described and communicated. Maguire provides the dialogue and the setting through the medium of storytelling and video imagery, allowing the audience to imagine their own version of events.
(Text: imagine limerick catalogue, 2004)