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Archived Exhibition

The L Shape

Jenny Brady and Sarah Browne

15 September — 03 November 2018
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  • Date 15 September — 03 November 2018
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    11.30am to 4pm Thursday to Saturday

    12pm to 4pm Sunday

About the Artist(s)

Jenny Brady is an artist based in Dublin, currently IMMA 1000 artist-in-residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (2017-2018). Recent presentations include Its Origins are Indeterminate curated by Erik Martinson, Whitechapel gallery, London; The Political Animal, The Showroom, London; Against Ordinary Language by Sarah Browne, Tate Liverpool; As We May Think curated by Alice Butler, IFI, Dublin; November Film Festival, Goldsmiths, London; Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK; 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany; and You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, Beursschouwburg, Brussels and Videonale 15, Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Roadkill (Irish Museum of Modern Art); Experimenta at BFI London Film Festival; EVA International 2014 curated by Bassam El Baroni, MOTHS curated by Modern Edinburgh Film School, Images Festival 2014 (Toronto), Futures '13 (Royal Hibernian Academy) and TULCA Golden Mountain 2013 curated by Valerie Connor. She is co-founder and curator of PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image.

Sarah Browne
is an artist based in Ireland concerned with non-verbal, bodily experiences of knowledge, labour and justice. This practice involves sculpture, writing, film, performance and public collaborative projects. Recent solo exhibitions include Report to an Academy, Marabouparken, Stockholm (2017), Hand to Mouth at CCA Derry~Londonderry & Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and The Invisible Limb, basis, Frankfurt (both 2014). Selected group exhibitions include On the Subject of the Ready-made Daimler Contemporary, Berlin (2017); All Men Become Sisters, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (2015); The Peacock, Grazer Kunstverein and One Foot in the Real World, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (both 2013). In 2016 with Jesse Jones she made In the Shadow of the State, a transnational collaborative co-commission for Artangel and Create. This work investigated how female bodies are subjected to the ‘touch’ of the law, and involved close collaboration with women in the fields of law, music, material culture and midwifery. In 2009 Sarah Browne co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Gareth Kennedy and Kennedy Browne, their shared collaborative practice. Browne is currently artist in residence with University College Dublin College of Social Sciences and Law.


Curator Alice Butler is a writer, film programmer and co-curator of aemi, an organisation that supports and exhibits artist & experimental moving image work. Alice worked at the Irish Film Institute for six years where she curated film seasons and had responsibility for artist moving image programming. Before founding aemi with Daniel Fitzpatrick in 2016, Alice was a curator with the Experimental Film Club. Alice undertook a curatorial residency awarded by the Arts Council in 2016. She has written for Sight and Sound, SET Magazine, Paper Visual Art, Enclave Review, VAN, EFS Publications and CIRCA and she is a regular arts reviewer for RTÉ Radio One’s Arena. She completed a fellowship at the Flaherty Film Seminar in New York in 2016 and wrote a survey chapter on the work of filmmaker Pat Murphy due for publication in 2019. She regularly presents screenings at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane that she programmes in collaboration with Jessica O'Donnell and she has lectured or participated in panels on the moving image at IMMA, PLASTIK Festival of Artists’ Moving Image, IFI, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Galway Arts Centre, UCD, DIT, TBG+S and Coláiste Dhúlaigh.

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Curated by Alice Butler The L Shape was an exhibition featuring artists Jenny Brady and Sarah Browne at the centre of which were two moving image works; a new presentation of Brady’s Going to the Mountain (2015) and Browne’s The Invisible Limb (2014), shown for the first time in a gallery context in Ireland.

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Going to the Mountain consists of three formal studies of pre-verbal babies. With a score developed in collaboration with Andrew Fogarty and featuring improvised percussion by David Lacey, the video considers how the pre-verbal child might represent a site of embodied knowledge by depicting the complexities of their gesture, rhythm and movement through a process of defamiliarisation.

Similarly concerned with a sense of closeness and dissociation, The Invisible Limb is a film letter addressed to Charlotte Posenenske, a deceased German artist known for the rigour of her artistic oeuvre and her withdrawal from art practice in favour of sociology in 1968. Intercut with archival footage is newly filmed material of Cynthia Moran, an Irish stone carver born in the same year as Posenenske, who continues to make work in Ireland and Madrid. Written in English and translated into a German voice, The Invisible Limb corresponds with two women who make sculptures in order to consider the magic of apparently costless production and reproduction.

A nod to the physical relationship between The Dock’s two gallery spaces, The L Shape was conceived as an exhibition that foregrounds the point at which two distinct artistic practices meet and suggested that this intersection offered a possibility for momentum in relation to critical thought and understanding. The exhibition title also referred to the shape of a periscope, an instrument for observation that, like both Going to the Mountain and The Invisible Limb plays with and redirects the reflective properties of the mirror, an object frequently used as a metaphor for cinema. The L Shape then was interested in the relationship between the visible and what remains out of view.

Embracing the transformation of The Dock’s two main galleries into proto-cinema spaces, The L Shape was accompanied and framed by a number of screening events that featured films considering a range of themes, ideas and concerns that arose in Brady and Browne’s work.

Associated Events

On Saturday 13th October as part of the Visual Artists Ireland International Speakers Series, artist Jenny Brady led a discussion with British film maker John Smith. This special event comprised a screening programme followed by a discussion with John Smith about his practice in relation to themes and concerns around language, speech and the nature of communication that arise in The L Shape.

On 22nd September The Dock hosted Nina Conti in conversation with Tara Flynn as part of the Visual Artists Ireland International Speakers Series. Following a screening of the award-winning documentary Her Master's Voice, artsit Sarah Brown introduced the discussion between the ventriloquist and documentary filmmaker Nina Conti and Irish actress and writer Tara Flynn . The conversation centred around themes and concerns that emerge in Her Master's Voice as they relate to The L-Shape, particularly ideas around voice, connection, identity, creativity and death.

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