Static Vision explores how the abandoned building sites derived from the collapse of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger era reframes how we perceive place in Ireland today. The exhibition takes its title from graffiti at the former Horizon Mall site in Limerick and is part of the artist’s practice-based PhD at Queen’s University Belfast.
Static Vision examines the correlation between the ephemeral celluloid fabric of photography and film, and the decay and stains of time displayed on the unfinished structures of the contemporary ruin, each a temporal barometer, physically registering memory, the imprint and history of time.
Polaroid Photography is employed for its distinct indexical, temporal, material and visual qualities, and to facilitate an intuitive interaction with these abandoned sites. The work seeks to encourage a dialogue between the activity of looking and recording, and that of delivering on-site single framed images and objects, a dialogue that can probe the dichotomies between the past and present, the fixed single moment and the sequential fixed moment.
Recordings are made in Super 8 to examine celluloid’s ephemeral, and temporal qualities and investigate the medium’s transformative capacity through engaging with its alchemical processes and presentational properties. The work examines how this low gauge medium and its capacity to interpret time, duration and movement can also communicate stasis. Super 8s textural qualities and static shots are explored to emulate the abandoned sites in between condition - stuck in time, yet slowly evolving and changing.
Static Vision, Katrina Maguire, publication
Static Vision by Katrina Maguire at Ormston House, Limerick is part of the practice-based PhD research project she is currently completing at Queen’s University Belfast: Reimagining Ruins: A Practice-Based Study of Perceptions of Place in Contemporary Ireland Using Analogue Visual Technologies.
The opening of the exhibition is on Thursday 23 January 2020, 7-9pm
Katrina Maguire will be in conversation with Dr. Dara Waldron in Ormston House on Wednesday 29 January, 11.30 am-1pm, and the exhibition will run until 1 February 2020. Admission is free and all are welcome.
Ormston House
Cultural Resource Centre
9-10 Patrick Street
Limerick City V94 V089
Ireland
http://ormstonhouse.com/static-vision/
