Caroline McCarthy invites us to look at the world afresh, transforming the banal and the abject into artworks. Sue Hubbard discovers, ahead of the artist’s exhibition at Green on Red Gallery this summer.
According to the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, “there is no longer a fiction that life can confront reality… reality has passed over into the play of reality; radically disenchanted, the ‘cool’ cybernetic phase [has supplanted] the ‘hot’ and phantasmatic…”.
Ahead of Dragana Jurisic’s solo show at the RHA in September we republish Stephanie McBride’s examination of the photographer’s 2011 show at the Droichead Arts Centre, studies of urban survival taken during the Celtic Tiger years, revealing Ireland’s struggling society.
Paul Larmour visits the new theatre, which he describes as a boon for the dramatic arts and the most exciting building in Belfast