Breda Lynch: If You’re Not Scared, The Atomic Bomb is Not Interesting
![Breda Lynch: Meat TV, cyanotype/digital print, 2023 | Breda Lynch: If You’re Not Scared, The Atomic Bomb is Not Interesting | Saturday 2 March – Saturday 20 April 2024 | The Source Arts Centre | Image: Breda Lynch: Meat TV, cyanotype/digital print, 2023 | photographic material, two heavily cyan-tinted images side by side, separated by a black strip and there are also black strips at either side of the total image; on the left we see stacks of processed meat – probably things like salami and pepperoni – but there are also specks that look like flies; there is text under the meat, probably saying how good it is; in the right image we see a futuristic TV set from around 1970; it looks like an astronaut’s helmet, and we see an antenna sticking out on the right at the back Breda Lynch: Meat TV, cyanotype/digital print, 2023 | Breda Lynch: If You’re Not Scared, The Atomic Bomb is Not Interesting | Saturday 2 March – Saturday 20 April 2024 | The Source Arts Centre | Image: Breda Lynch: Meat TV, cyanotype/digital print, 2023 | photographic material, two heavily cyan-tinted images side by side, separated by a black strip and there are also black strips at either side of the total image; on the left we see stacks of processed meat – probably things like salami and pepperoni – but there are also specks that look like flies; there is text under the meat, probably saying how good it is; in the right image we see a futuristic TV set from around 1970; it looks like an astronaut’s helmet, and we see an antenna sticking out on the right at the back](https://dnote.website/wordpres2/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Breda-Lynch-Meat-TV.jpeg)
Breda Lynch is visual artist working in a variety of media, including drawing, photography, print and digital media, video and installation. She engages with dialogues and discourses on – queer feminisms, the western mystery tradition and Occulture, appropriation and the economy of the image.
The artworks presented in the Source Gallery are from a larger body of cyanotype / digital work titled Fragments of a Lost Civilisation, which is ongoing in its production since 2015.
Lynch, engages with methodologies and approaches that respond to the history of mechanical reproduction, digital reproduction online, the persistent circulation of images in the public domain, all the while querying our relationship with the image, its consumption, distribution, reproduction, value, ownership and forcing (re)considerations of authenticity within art. As well as engaging with strategies of ‘detournement’ and culture jamming.
The art practice reflects on the impact of the mass reproduction of images from a variety of sources, the effects of wider viewership, fluid notions of the print medium, the intersection between analogue and digital, and the transformation of the modern concepts of arts and museums thereof.
The art exhibition at Source presents an installation of print-work and more that distills these ideas and explores the circulation of the image and fluidity of meaning.
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The Gallery is open Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm, 2 to 5pm on Saturday and from 7pm when there is an evening performance.