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Talia Moscovitz: 3 Works

August 27, 2009 — August 30, 2009

Talia Moscovitz: 3 Works. Thisisnotashop @ Market Studios

Preview: Thursday August 27, 2009, 7—9pm.  
Exhibition: Friday August 28 — Sunday August 30, open daily from 2—7pm 
At: Market Studios, Corner Mary’s Lane and Halston Street, Dublin 7

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3 Works is the first Irish show by American photographer, Moscovitz, and features new photographic work and installation based pieces exhibited in three key areas of the studio. In one such section of the “3 Works” exhibition, the artist has created an installation entitled ‘Home Boxes’. Here we see a selection of images held in light boxes which are randomly placed amidst the inter-twining tangle of electrical wire. “The reason for doing it in this way correlates directly to the ideas behind the concept for Home Boxes” explains Moscovitz.

The artist goes on to explain the ideas behind ‘Home Boxes’ , “This work examines the tension between the external factuality of home as a building and place and the intangible, emotional home of the mind. As we absorb information, our minds shuffle through collected memories and emotions in order to orient and digest what we experience. The visible wires of the low watt bulbs, as well as the boxes themselves recall the cycle of dismantling and rebuilding of “home” that one must go through as they grow up and are forced to re-evaluate for what that means”.

From Over your Shoulder is another section of the 3 Works show, consisting of 9 framed Polaroids, each labelled to indicate the time and place when taken. Moscovitz chooses to take the photographs with the subjects turned away. “By having the subjects not look into the camera or even facing the viewer, I am photographing the distance between the subject and myself. The Polaroid’s express the awareness of the present already being relocated to the past as you live it and depict the ultimate impossibility of grasping a relationship at a fixed moment in time”.

Continuing on from the Home boxes and From Over Your Shoulder sections of 3 works, the artists final part of the show features a slideshow of transitioning imagery transposed with photographic images of herself, her mother and grandmother. Entitled Her, She, Me, this is notably the the most personal aspect of the show. Moscovitz goes on to explain the ideas behind the piece and the reasons for its creation. “My mother and grandmother were both diagnosed with degenerative brain disorders by the time they were middle age. As my mother’s memory deteriorates, she confuses her mother’s life with her own, and stories from her childhood are more vivid and clear than the events of the previous day. Through the overlapping of photographs and drawings, I am directly transposing my struggle to understand my own individual identity, despite the dissolution of the barriers between generations and the crumpling of time, space, mother, daughter, past, and present.”

Originaly hailing from Atlanta Georgia, Talia Moscovitz has been living in Dublin since March 2008. Whilst working on new material she has also been working with various galleries in Dublin in curation and photographic based roles.