Don't Box Me In
04 Oct - 09 Nov 2007
DON'T BOX ME IN
Fernanda Chieco, Delphine Balley, Eoin McHugh and Patrick Jolley
10.04.07 _ 11.09.07
Built to receive national and international artists in residency, the annex situated in front of Galeria Leme is now used as an exhibition space with the opening of the group exhibition Don’t Box Me In.
Among the four artists, who participate in this exhibition, three of them – Fernanda Chieco, Delphine Balley and Patrick Jolley - met in Dublin, during a residency program at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art). They became friends and through living together, uncovered profound artistic affinites. With the exhibition already in mind, they invited the forth participant – Eoin McHugh.
Their work is disturbing and at the same time, enchanting. Often deceptive, one must pay close attention. Subtle and ethereal on one hand, and on the other, aggressive and degenerated. Lines of distinction are blurred. The body and the soul converse and internal ghosts – personal and collective – are led into the light, and playfully set free.
Delphine Balley (Romans, 1974. Lives and works in Lyon). Delphine is fond of storytelling and takes a series of photographs within which she recounts real events or anecdotes altered by high doses of fantasy and surrealism. The photographs on show at the shed are part of the series 11, Henrietta Street., realized in 2007, during the artist’s residency at the IMMA, Dublin. The story of the women in the Platt family is told through silent, yet powerful, images. The use of light conforms to convention and the colours and compositions reveal harmony and bring to mind academic paintings. All of them, however, transgress, living up to the artist’s preference for a mysterious huis clos.
Eoin McHugh (Dublin, 1977. Lives and works in Dublin). In Don’t Box Me In, Eoin McHugh works with wallpaper and two paintings on paper. Using a simplified palette, the artist develops non-linear narratives, where centuries collide through patterns and symbols taken from the collective imaginary. Realism and fantasy, the known and unknown, acceptance and the unexpected are confused. McHugh embraces idiosyncrasy and builds a dreamlike and subversive universe.
Fernanda Chieco (São Paulo, 1976. Lives and works in Dublin and São Paulo) The artist shows three drawings from the series Angelvs Domini, realized in 2007 during her residency at the IMMA, Dublin. In each of them, groups of 12 people, men and women, represented by a delicate and continuous pencil line, interact in a surprising way around a wild animal. These people belong to an ambivalent world, which resides between the ordinary and the spiritual, the sensual and the ethereal, the modern and the classical, and that provokes an unsettling sensation of lightness.
Patrick Jolley (Dublin, 1964. Lives and works in Dublin) Jolley’s intention is to make documentary films. His work, however, describes what is present, but is not necessarily visible or tangible. It is a provocative picture of our deepest fears, neuroses, taboos and suppressed impulses. For Don’t Box Me In, the artist presents Sog, produced in 2007. In this video, a building develops an allergic reaction to its inhabitants. While things begin to rot and fall apart, people continue their banal existence within the disrupted environment.
Fernanda Chieco, Delphine Balley, Eoin McHugh and Patrick Jolley
10.04.07 _ 11.09.07
Built to receive national and international artists in residency, the annex situated in front of Galeria Leme is now used as an exhibition space with the opening of the group exhibition Don’t Box Me In.
Among the four artists, who participate in this exhibition, three of them – Fernanda Chieco, Delphine Balley and Patrick Jolley - met in Dublin, during a residency program at IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art). They became friends and through living together, uncovered profound artistic affinites. With the exhibition already in mind, they invited the forth participant – Eoin McHugh.
Their work is disturbing and at the same time, enchanting. Often deceptive, one must pay close attention. Subtle and ethereal on one hand, and on the other, aggressive and degenerated. Lines of distinction are blurred. The body and the soul converse and internal ghosts – personal and collective – are led into the light, and playfully set free.
Delphine Balley (Romans, 1974. Lives and works in Lyon). Delphine is fond of storytelling and takes a series of photographs within which she recounts real events or anecdotes altered by high doses of fantasy and surrealism. The photographs on show at the shed are part of the series 11, Henrietta Street., realized in 2007, during the artist’s residency at the IMMA, Dublin. The story of the women in the Platt family is told through silent, yet powerful, images. The use of light conforms to convention and the colours and compositions reveal harmony and bring to mind academic paintings. All of them, however, transgress, living up to the artist’s preference for a mysterious huis clos.
Eoin McHugh (Dublin, 1977. Lives and works in Dublin). In Don’t Box Me In, Eoin McHugh works with wallpaper and two paintings on paper. Using a simplified palette, the artist develops non-linear narratives, where centuries collide through patterns and symbols taken from the collective imaginary. Realism and fantasy, the known and unknown, acceptance and the unexpected are confused. McHugh embraces idiosyncrasy and builds a dreamlike and subversive universe.
Fernanda Chieco (São Paulo, 1976. Lives and works in Dublin and São Paulo) The artist shows three drawings from the series Angelvs Domini, realized in 2007 during her residency at the IMMA, Dublin. In each of them, groups of 12 people, men and women, represented by a delicate and continuous pencil line, interact in a surprising way around a wild animal. These people belong to an ambivalent world, which resides between the ordinary and the spiritual, the sensual and the ethereal, the modern and the classical, and that provokes an unsettling sensation of lightness.
Patrick Jolley (Dublin, 1964. Lives and works in Dublin) Jolley’s intention is to make documentary films. His work, however, describes what is present, but is not necessarily visible or tangible. It is a provocative picture of our deepest fears, neuroses, taboos and suppressed impulses. For Don’t Box Me In, the artist presents Sog, produced in 2007. In this video, a building develops an allergic reaction to its inhabitants. While things begin to rot and fall apart, people continue their banal existence within the disrupted environment.