Elaine Hurley

Elaine Hurley

The male/female dichotomy inherent in her practice is framed by a 20th C Irish viewpoint. Using real life situations and tensions between men and women as her point of departure, also inherent is the notion of the domestic as a site of confinement. Enduring physical gestures are used as metaphors for transformative psychological positions and as passive aggressive assertions of power. Her work is a social comment on the traditional representation of woman as object and on contemporary society through a representation of power playing situations.

The use of the Still and Moving image and the Loop as a representation of an irresolvable state are important components in the works. The space that lies between the still and moving image represents a tension between possibility and non-action indicating a latent possibility. She contends that ideas of impossibility are integral to the notion of equality. Cyclical competitive actions represent imbalances, repetition, failure and an acquisition of strength.

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Film & Animation

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