Ronan McCrea

Medium (Upsidedown) consists of a slide projection with audio, its subject a fictional character created by a novelist residing in Rome. One of the sources for this character was the protagonist from the artist’s recent slide projection works, played by his daughter. The artist travelled to Rome to speak with the author in the hope that this transposition of form could have resonance within his work, only to find that the novel had been rewritten, the latest draft existed only in fragments. Any recognisable traces of the artist’s protagonist in the new text had gone.

In a sequence of projected images, the separation of figure from background by means of dissolves, superimpositions and the orientation of the projections is set against the voice of the novelist. For the artist, the problematisation of the voice and visual representation of the female subject by a male author is raised within the work and this in turn becomes the focus of Medium (Upsidedown).

Medium (Upsidedown) and Medium (The End) were exhibited simultaneously in Gallery for One at 5 Scarlet Row and The Return at the Goethe-Institut Dublin respectively, from September 8th to October 6th 2007, and curated by Georgina Jackson and Vaari Claffy.

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Downloads:

• [Invite and leaflet pdf]
  File: Medium invite.pdf [264.94KB]

Links:

• Review by Tim Stott, Circa Art Magazine
• Goethe-Institut Dublin