I Am What You’ve Come To See
Commissioned by Void Gallery, Derry, UK, and curated by Mary Cremin, in 2019.
In all works of fiction there belies an agreement that the reader/the viewer will allow for a suspension of disbelief. In this exhibition I Am What You've Come To See, the three galleries at VOID are transformed into a circular narrative, casting the audience as its central protagonist.
The first work encountered by the viewer is 'Place Your Finger (2019)' - a video-work in which the image/idea communicates directly with the viewer-cum-artist as if it were alive. The 'image/idea' invites the viewer-cum-artist to collude with it in various actions until it is 'successful'.
In ‘The Middle’ the viewer is compelled to move through the space by a series of scripted audio-visual instructions, staged objects and obtuse props that feign seemingly ungovernable chances in a shape-shifting journey.
The conversation and role-play continues throughout the exhibition with an accompanying audio-work on individual Mp3’s. Three Words, First Word, Round is a live re-reading of the exhibition, staged within the installation and performed by the artist. It dove-tails each of the works with a re-interrogation of their underlying intent.
