Tiltshift
The Golden Bough Room, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland
30 April 2010 - 18 July 2010
The collective memory and its bearing on the construction of visual historical narratives are at the fore of the Niamh McCann’s project Tiltshift. If collective consciousness relies on the traces of memory, the designation of an image as significant becomes a political act, leading to the preservation of knowledge and the shaping of our cultural memory. It also creates a unitary fiction of what is valued and preserved.
McCann’s splicing of iconic imagery from the cold war period for Tiltshift, calls into question how we construct our current understanding of both the social and the political. The historical tipping points of the Manhattan project - the design and development of the atomic bomb, man landing on the moon and the Nixon and Khrushev meeting, are familiar moments captured and stored in our collective psyche. Different messages, different time periods, different forms of communication are merged with the idea of disrupting hierarchies and opening new space for reflection.
The presented exhibition space fragments motifs of the urban and the natural elements to create a hybrid cultural landscape where both the natural and the urbane co-exist.
The Golden Bough Room, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland
30 April 2010 - 18 July 2010
The collective memory and its bearing on the construction of visual historical narratives are at the fore of the Niamh McCann’s project Tiltshift. If collective consciousness relies on the traces of memory, the designation of an image as significant becomes a political act, leading to the preservation of knowledge and the shaping of our cultural memory. It also creates a unitary fiction of what is valued and preserved.
McCann’s splicing of iconic imagery from the cold war period for Tiltshift, calls into question how we construct our current understanding of both the social and the political. The historical tipping points of the Manhattan project - the design and development of the atomic bomb, man landing on the moon and the Nixon and Khrushev meeting, are familiar moments captured and stored in our collective psyche. Different messages, different time periods, different forms of communication are merged with the idea of disrupting hierarchies and opening new space for reflection.
The presented exhibition space fragments motifs of the urban and the natural elements to create a hybrid cultural landscape where both the natural and the urbane co-exist.