Eoin Ó Conaill
b. 1979, Ireland
This collection of landscape and portrait images explores the idea of modern Ireland by focusing on the public space and the relationship between people and the Irish landscape. Studying the everyday landscape, this work isolates a synthesis of our common vernacular by including images of the streets, buildings, houses, landscapes and people. Photographed at different times of the day in different weather conditions, these images create a narrative reflecting the reality of our common experience. The work highlights the visual contradictions embedded in the present – the buildings waiting to be transformed, the land newly concreted, and the changing composition and attitude of the population. The optimism and base reality of human existence are witnessed, as a people survive, possibly strive, and generally get by. The use of light within the work, captured in the early morning or late evening as the light is changing, reflects and responds to this transition between what is vanishing and what is newly emerging.
(Text: reading the city catalogue, 2009)
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