Posted: Wednesday, 4 August 2010 Mirjam Siefert @ Severed Head Gallery in Dublin / PhotoIreland 2010
Heaven Is Under Construction
Now in its final week, the PhotoIreland team can sleep soundly in the knowledge that they did justice to all the big deal issues of the day, paid homage to a vast spectrum of emotion and provided a worthy stage for photographers great and small. If it was all a bit over-whelming, this month long visual assault of politics and poetry, out of the peripheries of the festival in the newly opened Severed Head Gallery lies the most levelling of shows by German photographer Mirjam Siefert. An ode to tiny detail, to the ordinary fabric of everyday life and to the splendid minutiae captured in a run-of-the-mill blink is the focus of Siefert’s gaze. Wonders from the corner of her eye and precious, mundane moments with people around her; in glances and in snippets, maybe the nicest way to say goodbye to the festival.
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from Jeanette Farrell @ LeCool
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THE SEVERED HEAD GALLERY
Ronan and Keith – Severed Heads Ronan McCall and Keith Lindsay open the doors of their new gallery space Severed Head tomorrow tonight.
We’ve always been talking about doing something together. I’m going to run an audio side to the gallery while Ronan will curate the photography aspect.
The name comes from an Iris Murdoch novel. The story relates to our situation in a weird way. There’s visual idea behind it in terms of the perception one has of a portrait. And it sticks out a mile.
We were digging up the floor boards and found a flyer for the Liffey Beat Club which used to exist in this building in the 60s.
Mirjam Siefert’s ‘Heaven is Under Construction’ will exhibit at the Severed Head, 16 Lower Mount Street, until July 30th. Opening Friday July 2nd from 7pm. Thurs-Sat from 10.30am to 6.30pm.
photo: Mirjam Siefert
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