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Aoife Giles

October 3, 2009 — October 4, 2009

You Will Travel To Many Places

Saturday October 3rd, 6.30-9.30

‘whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning’’
Hermann Hesse

The mixed media installation “You Will Travel to Many Places” consists of hundreds of helium filled balloons and handmade floating fortune cookies.
It is an exploration of the the confines of the gallery and of making choices. Whether informed or otherwise, it remains impossible to foresee the outcomes of the choices we make. Viewers are invited to choose their own fortune and take a balloon and the attached cookie away with them. The duration and form of the piece depends on the fortunes being chosen and taken away or floating out of the door of the gallery.

Aoife Giles (1980, Dublin) is a visual artist currently based in Dublin. A 2009 Graduate of the NCAD, Art in the Digital WorldMasters Programme, she works in a variety of media including photography, video and installation.
Her work explores the relations created between spaces and activities that we deem sacred or profane, the crossover between our public and private lives and the challenges of representing subjective experiences. She has exhibited and worked in Ireland, Brazil, England and Sweden.