The View of Photography: Afterparty Portraits
Darek Fortas

FROM: 16th - 22nd November

OPENING TIMES: 1 - 6pm

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday 19th November 6 - 8pm

”The View of Photography: Afterparty Portraits” - the latest body of work from Dublin based photographic artist and curator Darek Fortas. This exhibition is a photographic exploration of trance music community in Dublin. Fortas represents the conditions of an alternative, utopian lifestyle and photographically examines the notion of escapism during the changed economic and social situation in Ireland.

There's a certain rigor of representation in Fortas' images - idea of formal treatment of the subjects, the same place where all individuals were photographed, consistent composition of all pictures – it all subscribes to the notion “sameness” that is rooted deeply in Fortas photographic practice. “The View of Photography: After-Party Portraits” doesn't follow the classical notion of documentary, yet its powerful photographic documentation of social, economic and environmental landscape in modern Ireland.

Apart of the documenting the notion of escapism “The View of Photography: After-Party Portraits” aims to add new, necessary perspective to the contemporary debate regarding photographic portraiture: what the photograph of a human being can possibly communicate, how the dynamics of a face-to-face meeting are necessarily altered by the inclusion of a camera and how these affect the resulting image.

In order to arrange a private view outside the hours stated above please call 087 645 1473.

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