[spectre] GRACE WEIR : A FINE LINE

[EAF Director]

GRACE WEIR : A FINE LINE
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
LION ARTS CENTRE, NORTH TERRACE @ MORPHETT STREET, ADELAIDE

6PM THURSDAY 26 AUGUST-25 SEPTEMBER Tues-Fri 11-5, Sat 2-5
GALLERY TALK 4.30PM FRIDAY 27 AUGUST

Grace Weir employs the medium of film to depict space and to explore 
events in relation to time. The works however, are not primarily to 
be considered as part of a cinematic genre, where time is so often 
manipulated at the mercy of a story, but perhaps most tellingly they 
employ a strategy of subversion by placing a camera at the mercy of 
time.

Weir's places her films within a gallery context. This change in 
priority of the medium of film helps to place extraordinary 
significance upon events, and also to act as a device for capturing 
'real' time in relation to whatever subject that comes under the 
scrutiny of her lens. As subject matter, the interior view and 
exterior landscape figure heavily as a backdrop within her highly 
conscious line of enquiry. This selective approach helps to inform 
her own particular method of image making which aims to make sense of 
our world together with an enquiry into the forces that dictate its 
physical presence.

Within the exhibition 'A Fine Line' works contain a main projection 
alongside the more low key presentation of a related 'footnote' 
displayed on a nearby monitor. Taking the form of an explanatory 
dialogue, the footnote not only acts as an informant to the main 
piece as art but also more significantly to scientific enquiry. In 
this sense it's perhaps these, with one metaphorical foot in either, 
which most tellingly occupy the territory somewhere in between the 
codes of art & science.

(from Gallery Notes, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK - David Osbaldeston, 2003)

Grace Weir was born in Dublin where she studied at the National 
College of Art and Design and in 1997 received her M.Sc. in 
Multimedia from Trinity College,. In 1991 Weir was selected for a PS1 
residency at the Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York. and 
in 2001 represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 49th International 
Art Exhibition followed by a solo exhibition, 'Around Now', at John 
Curtin Gallery, Perth, Australia. She has shown extensively in 
Ireland and Europe and in the US.


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