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Indepth Arts News:
"Trish Morrissey: New Works"
2005-06-14 until 2005-08-07
Pump House Gallery
London, ,
UK United Kingdom
Pump House Gallery is pleased to present Trish Morrissey's first solo show
in a London public gallery. The exhibition includes photographs and video
work created over a two-year period inspired by family photo albums and
family relationships. Seven Years consists of large-scale colour photographs that deconstruct
family photography by meticulously mimicking it. In the series, the title of
which refers to the age gap between the artist and her elder sister,
Morrissey functions as director, author and actor, staging herself and her
sibling in tightly controlled, fictional mise-en-scènes based on the
conventions of family snapshots.
In order to construct images that appear to be authentic family photographs
from the 1970s and 1980s, Morrissey uses period clothing and props, both her
own and others, and the setting of her family's house in Dublin. She and her
sister assume different characters and roles in each image, utilizing body
language to reveal the subtext of psychological tensions inherent in all
family relations. The resulting photographs isolate telling moments in which
the unconscious leaks out from behind the façade of the face and into the
minute gestures of the body.
Accompanying the photographs are two new video works. In the bittersweet
Eighteen and Forty Five, two women wearing a wedding dress (whose faces we
never see) dance in the harsh surroundings of a suburban back yard, whilst
Eleven and Three Quarters shows a small child chasing an elusive rabbit
round a garden. Though the two videos are very different in style, both
evoke a sense of yearning and loss.
Trish Morrissey was born in Dublin 1967, and lives and works in London. She
gained her MA Photography from The London Institute in 2001 and has
exhibited internationally in group-shows in Vienna, Sao Paulo and Paris
amongst others. She was selected for East International 2004. In 2005 she
held her first solo exhibition in New York at Yossi Milo Gallery and has
work in collections at the V&A Museum, London and the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, USA.
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