Ben Cain & Tina Gverovic

b. 1975, UK & b. 1975, Croatia

The work planned for Limerick looks at the influences of imagination, given stereotypes and memory on documentary and on creating ideas and visions of a place. In this case, addressing the viewer’s position means thinking about how subjects in art, and how visions and ideas of a place can be created by a viewer quite subjectively and individually. In this case, the physical reality and present time of the gallery space is placed beside seemingly fictional accounts of another time and place. There would be two spaces generated: the here and now of the gallery space, which is theatrical and stage-like, and the elsewhere of ideas and images associated with another place that is suggested by sound. Together these two spaces play with subjects related to physical and immaterial, real and virtual. The work might also question the role that geographical information, as well as information of names and dates, plays in describing place. It might also raise questions about the influence that language and voice has on the perception of place and history.

(Text: imagine limerick catalogue, 2004)