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We are pleased to be presenting the first institutional solo exhibition in the UK and Ireland from Dublin-based artist Barbara Knezevic.
This speculative thing is contained within the gallery space. It is surrounded by a multitude of other items whose role is to act in its service. Boundless questions arise; how is its form negotiated, its value, its needs, its position within the world, its relationship with the viewer, its relationship to the MAC? We are presented with this ‘thing’, seated among its companion objects, and its infinite possibilities and impossibilities. This project embodies the artist’s interest in the means by which meaning and value of the things around us is constructed and disseminated in contemporary culture.
The Last Thing on Earth is one of a trio of exhibitions at the MAC exploring the possibilities of sculpture, installation, and object making in 2016. As well as Knezevic’s project, don’t miss Keith Wilson’s Calendar in our Upper Gallery from 12 August – 16 October, and Liam Crichton’s SLEEPER in our Sunken Gallery from 12 August – 9 September.
About the Artist
About the Artist
Barbara Knezevic
Barbara Knezevic is an Australian artist currently based in Dublin. She attended the Sydney College of the Arts where she received a Bachelor of Visual Arts and completed her Masters in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Her work is primarily object based, finding form both as individual, discreet artworks and more recently as complex stagings and formations of objects. These artworks and formations describe the peculiar human relationship to the things around us that is often typified by the art-object - things as agents, commodities, tools, proxies, artifacts, aloof matter and as models for representation. Recent exhibitions of her work have taken place at Solstice Arts Centre, Meath; Gallery Augusta, Helsinki; and Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway. Forthcoming exhibitions include City Agents, EKKM, Estonia and a solo exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.Meet the Judges
Meet the Judges
Barbara Knezevic is an Australian artist currently based in Dublin. She attended the Sydney College of the Arts where she received a Bachelor of Visual Arts and completed her Masters in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Her work is primarily object based, finding form both as individual, discreet artworks and more recently as complex stagings and formations of objects. These artworks and formations describe the peculiar human relationship to the things around us that is often typified by the art-object - things as agents, commodities, tools, proxies, artifacts, aloof matter and as models for representation. Recent exhibitions of her work have taken place at Solstice Arts Centre, Meath; Gallery Augusta, Helsinki; and Tulca Festival of Visual Arts, Galway. Forthcoming exhibitions include City Agents, EKKM, Estonia and a solo exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.
