Eloquent Proof
Roseanne Lynch
PhotoIreland
English
Softcover
Edition of 200
32 pages
148 × 210 mm
2017
ISBN 9780995701892
Eloquent Proof is a play on the term ‘elegant proof’ used during a dialogue between Lynch and a research mathematician. From this Lynch saw the resemblance between how a mathematician and an artist describe their research practices, both driven by curiosity to find outcomes. The term ‘elegant proof’ describes a novel and refined resolving of an exact mathematical problem, while Lynch’s play on words allude to something searching, uncertain yet communicative.
Where a mathematician looks for a one true unyielding outcome, Lynch approaches her work with the question ‘What could a photograph that I make here do?’. Lynch brings the viewer into a photographic enquiry of space and time, presenting a question with the photographic evidence of her bodily engagement with place. It is an exploration of her experience of designed space, rather than an account of the various sites. Using medium and large format film cameras, her interest lies in these particular methodologies as mechanisms of vision. Eloquent Proof consists of work made at Maison de Verre while on residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, The Camargo Foundation, Cassis where she was a Fellow and visited E.1027, Roquebrune Cap Martin, Villa Noailles, Hyères, and Carrière Sarragan, Baux de Provence.
Designed by Ángel Luis González Fernández.
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About the Artist
Roseanne Lynch is based in Ireland, with an international research and exhibiting darkroom-based photography practice. She moved temporarily to Leipzig in 2018 for a residency and 18-month engagement with The Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, resulting in a body of work entitled Grammar referencing Bauhaus teacher Johannes Itten’s insistence that his students learn the grammar of their materials.
This ongoing work contributed to solo shows at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 2019 curated by Peggy-Sue Amison; Embassy of Ireland, Berlin 2020, curated by Nora Hickey M’shili, Techne Sphere, Leipzig 2021, curated by Margret Hoppe; Lavit gallery, Cork 2022, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin curated by Pádraig Spillane 2023 and Adrian Bondy Galerie, Mind’s Eye, Paris 2024. Her 64 page publication GRAMMAR, contains a text on Lynch’s photography practice in relation to the Bauhaus movement by Torsten Blume Artistic and Research Associate, and Curator of Bauhaus Foundation Dessau. She is a lecturer in photography at MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.
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About The Series
Selected by an international panel of 23 professionals, New Irish Works brings you a selection of 20 projects and 20 photographers representing the diverse range of practices coming from Ireland. New Irish Works 2016 is a year long project of 10 presentations and 20 publications that aims to highlight the great moment Irish Photography is experiencing.
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About the Publisher
PhotoIreland grows the reputation of Irish artists globally through a 360 degree support system and platform for contemporary photography, activated through a diversity of projects. These include events such as PhotoIreland Festival and Halftone print fair amongst others; resources such as the PhotoIreland Collection, a specialised research library of photobooks, and Ireland’s Art Bookshop, The Library Project; via publishing with projects such as OVER Journal and TLP Editions; professional development support through networking and consultancy opportunities; and empowering early and mid-career photographers via our international partnerships, most relevantly through Creative Europe co-funded platforms such as FUTURES and Parallel.
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