Photobook Launch
‘OF BOUNDS’ by Bernadette Keating
Dear friends we are delighted to invite you to the Photobook launch for
OF BOUNDS by Bernadette Keating
Wednesday 27 July at 5pm at Photo Museum Ireland.
Free admission, all welcome.
Size: 22 x 33 cm, 100 pages
Weight: 0.3 kg
Paper: Maxisatin, 150g/m², matt (96 pages)
Printing Technique: Offset printing
Binding: open thread stitching with black thread
About the photobook:
The book which includes an essay by the artist, combines two works that focus on land reform, borders, and the design of space. ‘Líne’, a series of colour photographs shot over a number of years, explores the reinforced hedge boundary of a small farm in Ireland where Keating grew up. The text-based series, ‘Not all battlecries are meant to be heard’, is a collection of slogans taken from annual reports and social media platforms that have been engraved on steel plates; photographed in a gallery setting, each recontextualises the values and visions of corporate landowners. The juxtaposition of the two works emphasises the temporal nature of a world always in flux and the ongoing efforts to control it.
Images from the ‘Líne' series, which feature in the book, are also on show in the Museum’s current exhibition ‘In Our Own Image: The Politics of Place’, which runs until 27 August 2022.
Visitors view of Bernadette Keating's iInstallation of LINE at In Our Own Image; The Politics of Place at Photo Museum Ireland
About the book:
The book which includes an essay by the artist, combines two works that focus on land reform, borders, and the design of space. ‘Líne’, a series of colour photographs shot over a number of years, explores the reinforced hedge boundary of a small farm in Ireland where Keating grew up. The text-based series, ‘Not all battlecries are meant to be heard’, is a collection of slogans taken from annual reports and social media platforms that have been engraved on steel plates; photographed in a gallery setting, each recontextualises the values and visions of corporate landowners. The juxtaposition of the two works emphasises the temporal nature of a world always in flux and the ongoing efforts to control it.
About the artist:
Bernadette Keating is an Irish visual artist based in Leipzig and Ireland. Working between a conceptual and documentary approach to image-making, she explores and responds to the politics and aesthetics of the built environment. In 2018 she completed her postgraduate studies in Photography & Media, as a Master Student of Prof. Joachim Brohm, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. She holds a MA (Distinction) in Documentary Photography from University of the Arts London, and a BA in European Studies from the University of Limerick. Her artist book Of Bounds, which combines a photo and text-based series, was published by Lubok Verlag in 2022.
In Our Own Image: The Politics of Place
The third chapter of Photo Museum ireland’s year-long In Our Own Image exhibition programme, The Politics of Place is a landmark survey exhibition that undertakes a critical reframing of the way Irish life has been represented through photography. It addresses how photographers have engaged with one of the defining obsessions of our national identity – the notion of place.
25 June - 27 August
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