An exhibition of new work by Aideen Barry

Slice, Vast, Deep – the title for this show is coined from three words that require expression to formulate them. For example, the word Vast conjures up an “intimate immensity” to quote Gaston Bachelard; you cannot say this word without taking a breath to express it. This body of work created by Aideen Barry takes the idea of Micro and Macro and merges them together to try to visualise a sense of otherness, a sense of heteratopic inbetweenness. The artist has taken a breath in and expresses it out through a language of visually sublime and awesome multimedia artworks. Playing with surrealism, alternative facts and visual fictions she has concocted a topography of the elsewhere, bending scale, time, light, function and perceived verity. The resulting exhibition is a series of moving image and lens based artworks that question our ideas of perception and truth.

Aideen Barry (b. 1979) is an Irish visual artist with a national and international profile, whose means of expression are interchangeable – incorporating performance, installation, architecture, sculpture, film, moving image and lens based media. Aideen received the 2017 dlr Visual Arts Commission to develop new work for this exhibition at dlr LexIcon and has been creating the work for over a year.

Aideen is currently showing at the Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, and recently exhibited at The Butler Gallery in Kilkenny. Her survey solo show Brittlefield at Royal Hibernian Academy in 2016 received critical acclaim. Forthcoming exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum in New York, MARFA Contemporary Texas (2018) and Luan Gallery, Athlone (2018). Aideen teaches at Limerick School of Art and Design.

Saturday 16 September, 2 – 4pm

A great opportunity to see artist Aideen Barry’s new exhibition in the company of Seán Kissane, Curator of Exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Seán will be doing a walk through the exhibition with Aideen; all are welcome, there will be tea, coffee and children’s activities as well.

If you can’t make this event, we have lots coming up to interest all ages from bookbinding workshops for adults to animation workshops for kids.