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Aoife Cassidy and Anita Delaney - Of Men and Mountains
12 September - 10th October 2009
Preview: 7pm - 9pm Friday, 11 September 2009

Created for the Pallas Contemporary Projects space by two artists,
Aoife Cassidy and Anita Delaney, the exhibition Of Men and Mountains
takes as its starting point the idea of human struggle and endeavor.
Both artists have used a selection of different media - drawing, video,
installation and sculpture - to represent various facets of humanity
and it's integration with the natural world, sometimes with success,
sometimes with struggle.

Cassidy's work is autobiographical, a visual diary of personal
thought processes and experiences. She is interested in the human
psyche, in pushing the boundaries of our mental capabilities, and
the cultural anthropology of our societies. She aims to combine
various aspects of these in her studio practice, whilst continuing
a personal narrative throughout. She has a keen interest in ecology
and wildlife, which both have a large influence on her work. Combining
these aspects she implements the use of various media and techniques,
traditional and non-traditional, to create kitsch and often gaudy imagery.

Working mainly in video, animation and more recently installation,
Delaney is interested in systems of interpersonal communication
particularly language, genre and semiotics. Perceiving inherent
failures in each of these vehicles in attaining an intersubjective
cohesion, she is interested in probing the boundaries between successful
and failed communications and idiosyncrasies between form and content.

Anita Delaney graduated with a BA from IADT, Dun Laoghaire in 2006 and
has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally since. She
has most recently finished working on a large-scale film project funded
by an Arts Council New Work Award. In December she begins a 1-year
project residency in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin.

Aoife Cassidy received her BFA from University of Iowa in 2004 and an
MFA from the Burren College of Art and NUI Galway in 2008. She was the
2007 recipient of the Tulca Award, and residential awards through the
Tyrone Guthrie Centre and Kildare County Council. She recently exhibited
in a group show at The Stone Gallery in Dublin, and had a solo show at
The Centre d'art i Natura, in Catalan Pyrenees.

Special Event on Culture Night, Friday 25th September:

As an extension of their ongoing exhibition Of Men and Mountains at
Pallas Contemporary Projects, the artists, Aoife Cassidy and Anita Delaney,
will endeavour to construct a live human pyramid at the gallery at 8pm.
Comprised of themselves and associates, this attempt to consolidate persons
in to pyramid is a reflection of their ongoing interest in human endeavour,
struggle and perseverance amidst the onslaught of contemporary life
(urbanity, text, image, language, internet, bleached skulls, mountains).
All are welcome to watch the formation of this edifice and bear witness to
it's success or misadventure.

 

 

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