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Patrick Jolley

Corridor

Film expérimental | 16mm | couleur | 8:0 | Irlande | 2009

The camera tracks through an endless system of institutional corridors. Progress is illusory - the present is continuous. Other personalities move in the corridors engaged on unspecified errands.We look to them for some sense of kinship or common purpose but any affinity we find only reinforces our alienation.

The root of the Irish artist Patrick Jolley?s films and photographs lies in the subjective experience of the passage of time. He expands on sensations of inertia, solidification or dislocation through physical displacements and rearrangements. The familiar is thus subverted and rendered uncanny. In one work furniture falls from the sky and shatters in an empty carpark, in another the occupants of a house go through domestic life in an atmosphere thickened into liquid, while in another the fireplace vomits copiously. The results are redolent with melancholia yet infused with the kind of resigned humour that surfaces when everything is lost. His work has shown widely in galleries and film festivals. It is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Lyons Museum of Contemporary Art.. He currently lives in Slane, Co. Meath. Ireland.