Saturday 3 April 2010

Four days in Ireland

I dusted off my Mamiya 7 II for this trip but it rarely came out of the bag. These were taken on my G9 in Dublin and Kilkenny.

While in Dublin I visited an exhibition at the IMMA of Francis Alÿs' Le temps du sommeil, a series of 111 small-scale paintings documenting the artist's 'recorded actions'. These include: carrying a leaking can of paint around Ghent; pushing a block of ice through Mexico City until it melts; wandering the streets with a gun in his hand until he is arrested and using 500 volunteers to move a 1,600-foot sand dune just four inches from its original position.