Event Details
Dates
30/09/2017 – 30/09/2017
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To view an extract please follow the link: https://vimeo.com/
In ‘Surface Memory’, an essay written to accompany the film, Maureen O’Connor writes:
“Aoife Desmond’s film, RetroReflection, begins with a series of extreme close-ups of different pairs of eyes, so that the audience feels scrutinized, creating a potentially discomfiting circuit of looks and reflections. The eerie, echoing, non-diegetic soundscape dominating the first thirty seconds contributes to the atmosphere of unease, introducing a gothic note that will recur at times throughout the piece. The gothic unfixes distinctions between past and present; an appropriate atmosphere, then, to open a film that challenges perceptions, especially those that erect destructive distances between, on one side, culture, science, and the human; and, on the other, the “natural” world and the nonhuman. The film suggests that seeing is not knowing. Knowledge is not the establishment of fact, but an ongoing process of discovery, an accommodation with the limits of knowledge. ”
This event is in conjunction with ‘Something Momentous Germinating’, a solo exhibiiton by Aoife Desmond in Galway Arts Centre, which runs until October 10th.
