A4 Sounds Gallery
22 OCTOBER - 07 NOVEMBER 2021
PHOTOGRAPHY : by Kate Bowen
NEXT TO NONE
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Next to None is a multimedia installation exploring the precarity and emotional experience of renting in Dublin. Drawing on her experiences over the past 8 years, Maria uses sound, sculpture and photography to capture quieter moments of frustration, stress and anger living in poorly maintained apartments, and daydreams of a future out of reach.
The stage for this work is a full scale floor plan of the cheapest apartment currently available to buy in Dublin. An apartment not fit for purpose, without a bedroom that will inevitably be purchased by a landlord and released onto the rental market. The work is performed on its unstable walls and a spoken text echoes through the gallery in Danish.
EXHIBITION
(video)
Digital Exhibition is also confined to the same floorplan to serve as seeminly one-dimensional platform for the artwork display.
The apartment consists of Hall, Living Room, Build in Closet, Bathroom and Kitchen. The viewing experience mimics the hopes and frustrations often attached to renting experience in the city. To navigate through the exhibition viewer uses the mouse to open the doors to enter individual spaces.
Each space is represented through two photographic artworks; both conceptually obtrusive and presumptuous in relation to the selected room. One photograph is on full display and the other one is hidden, appearing only in fragments as the mouse moves around the boundaries of the spaceto mimic the often hidden, but ever present emotional pitfalls associated with the renting experience. The uncertainty and insecurity is intensified through the soundscape of the artist speaking in Danish.
( exhibition websites are kept live by A4 Sounds Studio for a period of 1 year, it is possible that live link is no longer active)
www.next-to-none.com
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