Photobook Launch
‘Her Own’ by Dragana Jurišić
Dear friends,
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of
’Her Own’ an exciting new photobook by Dragana Jurišić
Thursday 22nd December at 5.30pm at Photo Museum Ireland
Free admission, all welcome.
About the photobook:
“documents Jurisic’s attempt to trace the story of her aunt Gordana, a glamorous figure who left rural Yugoslavia in the 1950s and whose subsequent experiences involving false identities and espionage remain mysterious. Jurisic presents her careful, fruitful research in a series of illustrated notebooks that recall WG Sebald’s approach to memoir, history and reflection." (5* review of My Own Exhibition in The Irish Times by Aidan Dunne)
"the latest body of work by Dublin-based photographer Dragana Jurišić, an on-going series comprising five fascinating chapters due to culminate into a fictionalised biography. Combining text and photography, appropriated imagery intermingles ruthlessly with notebook texts, video and performance, across diverse creative processes and narrated through differing voices. Hybrid and complex, My Own Unknown defies classification – its overlapping of languages, registers and motifs reflect the eclectic and expansive aesthetic and intellectual world of its author, Dragana Jurišić." (Natasha Christia for 1000 Words Magazine).
The book will be available for shipping on 19th December, so deliveries before Christmas cannot be guaranteed.
First published in 2022 in an edition of 670
Photographs copyright © 2022 Dragana Jurišić
Text copyright © 2022 Dragana Jurišić
Designed by Dragana Jurišić and Niall McCormack
ISBN: 978-1-8380385-6-4
About the artist:
Dragana Jurišić's is an award winning artist with an international reputation. Her project, My Own Unknown, has been exhibited globally including Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin (2018); Centre Culturel Irlandaise, Paris (2017); Rawson Projects Gallery, New York (2016); and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (2016). Jurišić’s photobook and series, YU: The Lost Country, is world renowned and has been exhibited at Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen (2018); Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb (2017); RHA Gallery, Dublin (2014); and originally at Belfast Exposed (2013). She is in many collections including National Gallery Ireland, Trinity College, Dublin City Council. Her major work 100 Muses (2015) is in the public collection of the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2019, Jurišić completed the IMMA 1000 residency, and is nominated for the Zurich Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland for her portrait of poet Paula Meehan, from their collaborative book Museum, commissioned by Dublin City Council. Jurišić is an Assistant Professor DCU since August 2019 . She is also Visiting Fellow at the University of South Wales (2018-2021) and an International Mentor at the MA in Photography - PhotographyStudies College, Melbourne, Australia.
In Our Own Image: Tony O’Shea The Light of Day Retrospective Exhibition
Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present The Light of Day, the first major retrospective exhibition of work by Irish photographer Tony O’Shea. A legendary figure in documentary photography, O’Shea is regarded as one of Ireland’s most important contemporary photographic artists. Curated and produced by Photo Museum Ireland, this retrospective exhibition brings together for the first time his seminal bodies of work - The Hill, Dubliners, Bird Men, Turkey Markets, Kingdom of Hounds, Border Roads, Ways of the Cross, Italia 90 and Never Forget series together with his more personal images of his late father.
25 November 2022 - 18 February 2023
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
Mondays by appointment for education, artists archiving and training.
Closed Sundays
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