The f. Project Photography Exhibition 'Of Light' - 6.30pm, June 30th 2023
With support from Cork County Council Art Grant Scheme
Chapel Hill School of Art is delighted to continue its collaboration with Cork based photographers, performance artists and film makers through its 2023 exhibition programme.
The project members are:
Éanna Heavey, Chris Hurley, Orla O Byrne, Dori O’Connell, Bríanna Ní Léannacháin, Evgeniya Martirosyan, Sophia Santabarbara, and Artem Trofimenko.
The Cork Film Centre darkroom facilities are based in Sample Studios, Churchfield, Cork.
f.Project is a group of artists whose practices include analogue photography. The group originally came together through a series of meetings in 2017 - initially at Crawford College of Art & Design and later at Cork Film Centre. We embrace all analogue photographic processes from the traditional to the experimental. We allow ourselves to expand into other forms of art production such as video, performance, drawing and embroidery, as our interests dictate. Whatever form it takes, our work is typically contemplative and deeply observational: characteristics associated with shooting film and darkroom processes. We find the medium asserting itself in our work through ways of seeing and thinking as much as through materials and method. We are eternally grateful for the long-term loan of vintage camera equipment from the Hermann Marbe collection, courtesy of Jessica Carson, which was instrumental in our foundation.
Of Light
Occurring in high summer when natural light is at its most abundant, this, the third f.Project exhibition, emphasises the various ways in which we, as artists and photographers, work with light.
Light is an essential element in art and photography. It can be used to convey various emotions, moods, and messages. Sometimes it is the material, being an actual component of the analogue photograph. At other times it appears within an image or a work of art, speaking a language of its own, describing something we would struggle to name. It is almost too huge and too ‘everywhere’ to pinpoint.
Why do our hearts cave in slightly at the sight of a perfect sunset? Why are we often overcome by an unshakeable distrust of shady corners and ominous shadows? Of Light offers the audience a chance to question their perception of lightand its role not only in art and photography but in their own everyday lives.
Through photography, film and performance f.Project brings the exhibition, Of Light to Chapel Hill School of Art from Friday the 30th of June 2023.
With the kind support of Cork County Art Office
Opening Event June 30th at 6.30 pm
Closes July 23rd
Open from Thursday to Sunday 11am to 5pm.
