ARCO '08 - ARCO 40, Madrid

Michael Boran, Diana Copperwhite, Stephen Loughman

13/02/2008 - 18/02/2008

The photographs of Michael Boran track the fleeting traces of interactions between people and places. Tracing and mapping different movements and directions across the surface they open up a bird’s eye view of underlying patterns and shifting co-ordinates. Utilising a wide range of techniques from time lapse, aerial photography and digital image enhancement, the photographs reveal and revel in the actual, in a manner which references both the rigors of scientific photography and the evidence for “The Unexplained.”

Diana Copperwhite is an artist whose work is concerned primarily with memory. Her subjects are identifiable, sometimes drawing on media images and at other times from her own experiences, but she plays with lighting and colour to create a slightly unreal dreamlike quality. The mood of her paintings is generally lyrical and soft with liquid layered surfaces that create an air of ambiguity. She paints over recognisable images, working and reworking the surface so that objects that take on the fluid quality of being remembered rather than frozen in real time.

Stephen Loughman’s paintings are connected in an episodic way, rather than in a linear and sequential manner. Whether representational zoological enclosures, museum displays, municipal parkland or domestic space in London, Paris, Dublin or Constanta, one of the primary organising principles in his pictures is how three dimensional space (and the space of movement and action) is mediated by the effects of the optical technology of film and photography…The paintings do not include people. There appears to be no incident, no event, no witnesses and nothing to see.

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