MENUCLOSE

Opening Hours

Full opening hours

Location

Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Dublin 8, D08 FW31, Ireland
Phone +353 1 6129900

View Map

Find us by

 
  • Overview
    •  

    Process Room, 06.01.10- 24.01.10

    Sam Jury’s work examines how we, as consumers and spectators, discern reality when confronted with photography and film. Concurrently, she explores the gaps and fissures between moving and still imagery; painting and film. Starting with staged photographs or documented performances, she uses the editing process to suspend linear narrative and present a highly manipulated scene that hovers between specific time, place or genre; a world made up of associative readings, that calls upon a global or collective memory to measure reaction and meaning.  

    Sam Jury - Video projection into perspex form, 2010  Sam Jury - Video Postcards - single channel, looped videos works on digital screen (20 x 30 cm), 2010

    During her residency at IMMA, Jury has been working on a series of video works that combine moving image with photographic stills whilst researching new methods of production that establish a dialogue between 2D and 3D modes of display. The installation inside the Process Room is evidence of this process come full circle. The projected video of a head is an amalgamation of film footage combined with photographs, some of which derived from digital images projected onto a sculptural form of a blank head. The final re-projection of this piece onto a monolithic form reconnects with the sculptural and adds a figurative presence to the ‘iconic’ form.

    In comparison, the video works displayed outside the Process Room are vignettes in an intimate, almost postcard, scale. Again, combining still and moving imagery, the works depict two events: the obscure actions of indistinct figures in a bleak English landscape and the disruption of matter, airborne in the atmosphere. The original shoot was carried out behind layers of screens, similar to watching through the window of an interior space. The sound reinforces the notion of both interior and exterior space, combining domestic and ambient noise, where two spaces are created; in front of and behind the camera.  As a reflection on our relationship to film, document, drama and trauma, these short videos explore the notion of suspended trauma and the tragic-comic events that can sometimes follow.

    Sam Jury completed a Fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools, London,  in 2002 and has lived and worked in both the USA and Middle East. She is now based in the UK. Recent shows include Art After Dark at the Louise Blouin Institute (London, UK) and Invisible Rays, (curated by Michael Rush) at the Rose Museum (USA). This month she will be showing a work from her video series ‘Forever is Never’ (curated by Andrea Inselmann) at Herbert F Johnson Museum (USA), followed by a solo show at Stephen Haller (New York). For further information, please see  www.samjury.com

    For a printable version of this information please download the following document:  Sam Jury: Still and Still Moving (Word doc 2000 – 24.5KB)

    Click here to return to Previous Participants

    Click here to browse ARP Projects

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Sam Jury, b.1969

    Sam Jury (b. 1969) is an artist filmmaker who works across the forms of film, photography and installation.  She graduated with an MFA in Painting from Cornell University in 1998 followed by a two year Fellowship in Print and Digital Media at the Royal Academy Schools, London. She has lived and worked in the US and Middle East and is based in the UK. She exhibited internationally with solo shows in London and New York, and group shows in China, Spain, and Switzerland. In 2009 Jury was artist in residence at IMMA. 

    Much of her work is concerned with the ability of moving image to reflect and impact on psychological states. For many years she has been interested in what she terms ‘suspended trauma’ - unresolved events replayed through shared narratives often supported by screen technologies. Working with these concerns, she makes both fiction and non-fiction films. The latter - an alternative form that sits somewhere between artist film and documentary - has, to date, focused on over-looked situations and instances of social injustice. Since 2017, she has been working collaboratively with SKLAD Cultural Space in post-conflict Abkhazia to co-produce artworks related to the long-term effects of geopolitical isolation. More recently she has been working with psychologists on a series of film works that reframe perceptions of Tourette’s Syndrome in the public domain.  

    View Artist