I thought I dreamed of you was a multimedia installation exhibited at the West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork 2009-10; Gallery 817, Anderson Hall, UARTS University of the Arts, Philidelphia USA and the Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 2010.
Consisting of photography, video, neon, drawing, wall painting and badges, this exhibition explored how we understand reality. Can we be sure it even exists? Is it just a dream, a series of thoughts? I thought I dreamed of you explored ideas of fragmented realities presenting post-modern possibilities. The title of the exhibition is a give-away, the idea of ‘I’ as a thinking presence, while ‘dreamed’ questions the nature of reality as an imagined flux, ‘you’ is experienced in terms of an existential quandary of the other, questioning how we understand ourselves through others and the world around us.
Also see Videos Ode to Courbet 2009
Installation view of 'I thought I dreamed of you' exhibited at the West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork 2009-10.
The pen drawing is based on a drawing of a view of the cliffs at Mizen Head, it has been drawn on a photograph of the gallery space to suggest a second installation of the wall painting, which never existed. Exhibited at the West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork 2009-10.
The video represents a different form of engagement with landscape. Using found video footage, the romantic notion of the desire to be immersed in landscape is turned on its head when faced with the reality of how young people engage with their surroundings using cars in a sport called ‘dough nutting’. Exhibited at Gallery 815, Anderson Hall, UARTS The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, through The Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Program, in collaboration with the Von Hess Residency Program 2010.
The video represents a different form of engagement with landscape. Using found video footage, the romantic notion of the desire to be immersed in landscape is turned on its head when faced with the reality of how young people engage with their surroundings using cars in a sport called ‘dough nutting’. Exhibited at Gallery 815, Anderson Hall, UARTS The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, through The Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Program, in collaboration with the Von Hess Residency Program 2010.
Exhibited at Gallery 815, Anderson Hall, UARTS The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, through The Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Program, in collaboration with the Von Hess Residency Program 2010.
Exhibited at Gallery 815, Anderson Hall, UARTS The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, through The Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Program, in collaboration with the Von Hess Residency Program 2010.
Exhibited at Gallery 815, Anderson Hall, UARTS The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, through The Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Program, in collaboration with the Von Hess Residency Program 2010.
Exhibited at Gallery 815, Anderson Hall, UARTS The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA, through The Multidisciplinary Fine Arts Program, in collaboration with the Von Hess Residency Program 2010.