Exhibition
Brittlefield: A Solo Survey of the Works of Aideen Barry
7 Jul 2016 – 21 Aug 2016
Event times
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11.00am – 5.00pm
Wednesday LATE night opening: 11.00am – 8.00pm
Sunday: 12.00pm – 5.00pm
Office Hours
Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm
Always Admission FREE
Cost of entry
Free
A major solo survey of the works of Aideen Barry
About
Marking the first major solo survey of the work of multi-disciplinary artist Aideen Barry, the RHA is pleased to commission a new immersive and monumental installation by the artist, entitled Brittlefield. Barry is known predominately for her performative works and enigmatic moving image visual fictions laced with uncanny, slapstick and macabre humour. The works presented are a phrase of the artist’s more recent performative films that cast a lens on her interest in obsessional behaviour, neuroses and a feeling of monachopsis. Interrogating the space where media and viewer meet, Barry has created an architectural intervention into the gallery landscape. Shards, protruding from a large floor structure fuse the viewer to the viewed, Barry has concocted an ominous installation, channeling ideas of architectural anxiety and dysfunction.
The Royal Hibernian Academy is an artist based and artist orientated institution dedicated to developing, affirming and challenging the public’s appreciation and understanding of traditional and innovative approaches to the visual arts. The Academy achieves its objectives through its exhibition education and collection programmes.
The Academy is funded by the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, through fundraising initiatives, through the earned revenue from its Annual Exhibition and by the Benefactors, Patrons and Friends of the Academy.
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