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This exhibition is currently closed due to ongoing Northern Ireland-wide restrictions.
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The Black Monolith of the Flâneur is a filmic work and photographic series which portrays a melancholic and indecisive figure, unconsciously symptomatic of the neo-liberal era. Limiting themselves to a reduced perimeter in Dublin’s north inner city, the flâneur gets lost in the solitude of the real, in the contradictions and the movement of impossibility that uncontrollably assert themselves on an inner emotional experience.
The flâneur roams through the urban space on a helpless impulse. Lingering on absurd or dissonant details, on pieces of construction that are fragmented, divided, dilapidated, archaic or untimely – and with an impenetrable or unfathomable psychic dimension – the flâneur faces the impossibility of grasping a historical memory, of progressing or taking a position in time.
In this work, the artist uses photography, traditionally considered as a pause in time, in a paradoxical way, to open up speculative and undetermined possibilities in response to a future that is indistinct and uncertain, yet a future with innovative potential still to be discovered.
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About the Artist
About the Artist
Frederic Huska
Frederic Huska is a French artist, currently in residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studio in Dublin. His practice incorporates photography, writing and film to explore the multi-layered connections between the self, history and the architecture of the city. His work has been exhibited internationally, including through collaborative installations at Place and QSS Gallery in Belfast; screenings at Catalyst Arts Gallery and Belfast Exposed; group shows at MAC International 2016, Ku Art Center in Beijing, Kathleen Cullen Gallery in New York and the National Portrait Gallery in London.Meet the Judges
Meet the Judges
Frederic Huska is a French artist, currently in residency at Fire Station Artists’ Studio in Dublin. His practice incorporates photography, writing and film to explore the multi-layered connections between the self, history and the architecture of the city. His work has been exhibited internationally, including through collaborative installations at Place and QSS Gallery in Belfast; screenings at Catalyst Arts Gallery and Belfast Exposed; group shows at MAC International 2016, Ku Art Center in Beijing, Kathleen Cullen Gallery in New York and the National Portrait Gallery in London.
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