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Elaine Byrne curated by Helen Carey, "They Have Eyes"
17th September - 30th September 2009
Dublin artist Elaine Byrne is exhibiting her latest artwork - ‘They Have Eyes’ in the Leinster Gallery on South Frederick Street from the 17th September to the 30th September 2009.
Using the interior and the secret garden of the Leinster Gallery in the heart of Dublin, Elaine elaborates the stories that haunt childhood, that render imagination the main determinant of reality. In photography, video, neon and sound, Byrne examines the ideas object and memories evoke, the fears projected onto the object and the ideas around where that fear comes from. She re-enters the arenas of childhood, and invites the viewer to re-inhabit being a child, to see things not as they are but as they are imbued with significance associated with the subconscious, where the idea of the object or the image is watching the viewer is proposed.
Byrne’s original medium of sculpture gives her a sense of the object and in this exhibition taking a path through multi-media, she arrives back at the power of the object for the human mind. Byrne suggests that the power of childhood imagination is so strong that the point when the object is re-introduced out of context, is one where imagination still masters the rational, that it is impossible to ever see these ‘things’ as they are.
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