Room Without a View, by Ailbhe Greaney

About

Using photography, text, music, video and installation, Greaney’s work challenges our unique perspectives and views of contemporary life.Focusing on the physical view from a garden  window, the exhibition uses this as a starting point to explore our different visual perspectives through  photography. 

‘Notes on Distance’ explores Greaney’s own view as well as the view of people who live between  places as a consequence of migration. Her work imagines the way in which photography might provide  or create an ‘impossible view’. Collaborating with young women with Vietnamese, Chinese and Indian  heritage, living now in France, Ireland and England, Greaney’s work weaves connections across time  and place. 

Here, in the exhibition, the photography might act as a portal, through which we show our lives within  the many social worlds that we inhabit. Photography enables us to challenge personal perspectives  and recreate worlds within worlds. 

“Within times of crisis a sense of repetition, of static immobilisation, of each day as a counterpart for  the next, prevails. The idea of a continuous, stable, yet ever changing view from a window - the  existence of art, contemporary technology, social media; portals all, but not all Facebook - might offer  some respite from such a sense of paralysis. These views might offer some opportunity to reproduce,  to duplicate the world as we once knew it, or wished it to be.”