Limerick, Ireland
Eamon O'Kane, Mobile Studio, 2004, mixed media installation, 4.9 x 2.4 x 2.4 m

Eamon O’Kane

b. 1974, Ireland

The first thing we encounter is the ‘studio’, which resembles a huge packing crate deposited in the middle of the floor. It looks almost as if this is the crate that the rest of the exhibition came in. But go inside and you find that it is indeed equipped to resemble a functioning studio. The walls are densely lined with images of various kinds, including original drawings plus photographs and photocopies, many of buildings, some of O’Kane’s Sign series … Elaborate architectural models are laid out on tables, and e-mails, a casually placed book, and other material surround a computer. All of which creates something like a Marie Celeste atmosphere: a sense that the space has been vacated suddenly.

— Aidan Dunne

(Text: OPEN e v + a catalogue, 2005)

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