Grá Film Screening

As part of Grá, an exhibition of work at Uillinn selected from the Crawford Gallery of Art Collection by the Salt & Pepper LGBTQ Art Collective with Toma McCullim, we will screen Aideen Barry’s Not to be Known (single channel film, 5.5 mins) on a loop throughout the day.

Seduced by the concept of the ideal home-maker and the working woman as proposed by the media, Aideen Barry’s stop-motion film, Not to be Known, shows the artist overwhelmed by the monotony and magnitude of domestic chores in nightmarish scenarios. Aideen Barry’s performances are often physically and mentally demanding, mirroring similar pressures on the female body which are exerted by our society. This dark humoured, uncanny film expands upon her interests in monachopsis – the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place - and her exploration of obsessional behaviour in the context of suburban normality.

Image credit: Aideen Barry, Not to be Known, film still (2015) Collection: Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Image © the artist