ART
Claire Morgan |
Written 30 January |
Friday 22 January, 11:00Galerie Karsten Greve, 75003 [map]Claire Morgan
The Karsten Greve gallery presents the exhibition of
Claire Morgan, the young Irish artist born in 1980 in Belfast, including an important set of sculpture-installations specially created for this occasion.
Claire Morgan’s work is rooted in the futile desire we have to quantify life and death. Human beings like everything else in the natural world are fragile, individual parts of something much bigger. She explores the human condition and questions the real value or impact an individual might have or be able to have. Struggling with these questions, Claire Morgan’s work is a personal attempt to evaluate the complexity, beauty, horror and futility of being both human and animal.
These new works examine the small, quiet discoveries that occur between the extremes of birth and death, encounters or chance meetings between animals and plants and us humans and our waste. They explore situations where nature interacts with that which challenges it (us and our by-products). In the exhibition, a barn owl and thousands of airborne seeds sit alongside fragments of waste plastic and cockroaches. “For me it illustrates a moment where perfection and disaster might merge. I am trying to convey that we are animals, though we try to pretend we are not. Exploring the physicality of animals, death, and illusions of permanence in the work is my way of trying to come to terms with these things myself. For me the animals in my work make reference to how we function, live and suffer within the environments."
Claire Morgan has pursued a career as a visual artist since 2003. Her works have been exhibited regularly in Belfast and London as well as in Europe; she has benefited from several residences and commissions in Great Britain and has participated in numerous international group exhibitions.
