Limerick School of Art and Design
Aoife is an Irish photographer who began her studies in Dublin before moving to Limerick School of Art and Design, TUS, for the final two years of the Photography and Moving Image (BA) course. Her work centres around the smaller aspects of life that can often go unnoticed; deconstructing the spaces and social aspects of modern life that influence us daily, particularly gender politics. The artist utilises portraiture, self-portraiture and still lifes to explore and observe these subjects through analogue-based mediums – experimenting with different techniques such as slide film development, Lith printing, cyanotype printing and gelatin silver printing.
1924
1924 explores the beliefs of the male-dominated Surrealist movement and the deeply troubling objectification of the female form at its core. The artist’s self-portraiture utilises the visual language of the Surrealists in order to construct a new meaning within the works created by male artists of the movement, one where women’s bodies are seen not as a medium to reflect the male artist’s values, but as a means of self-expression – combining photography as well as darkroom techniques of the time in order to bring forth the subliminal and confront the male gaze.