Dark

Sinead Mason, Megan Fritz and Anton Birkenmayer

10.03.2022 - 21.04.2022

Long gallery

The works in this exhibition articulate themselves within the gaps of documentation and challenge the hegemonic archive. The apparent linearity of knowledge is reinforced by the ways in which we ingest knowledge, with the most obvious example being that of the codex. But this assumption is interrogated in Anton Birkenmayer’s work. He calls into question our very perception of time and the individual’s reality in relation to these grand concepts, too. Relating personal experience to a meta-narrative is mainly convoluted through visual representation and its inherent performativity.

Sinead Mason’s work simultaneously refers to and overturns traditional portraiture and the exacting eye of the camera through blurring out borders and creating facades. In an attempt to access the porous nature of the unconscious, her work investigates ways of being that are inescapably tied to the rigidity of our society while always being just marginal of it.

Megan Fritz challenges what we know as ‘the norm’ by taking everyday objects and subverting their functionality, allowing them to exist in a state of flux and perpetuating their reconstruction by creating traces of their existence.