Helen O’Donoghue investigates the collaborative practice of Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly who, from their base in Paris since 1990, have extended the participatory nature of their practice to a worldwide network
Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly live and work in Paris, where they moved in 1990 following architectural studies in Dublin. After a lengthy collaboration with the esteemed French urban theorist Bernard Huet in the early 1990s they developed a long-lasting interest in the filmed city. Patterns of behaviour, both in cities and within our institutions, are a central preoccupation of their work; and these they examine through narrative and interactive video, installation, photography and text.
Ireland’s most highly regarded architectural émigré is the subject of a new publication and a USA-based exhibition; Ellen Rowley looks at his legacy