Artist Talk: Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, and Léann Herlihy

Join us for a lunchtime talk with Lyndon Barrois Jr., Elisa Giardina Papa, and Léann Herlihy in conversation with Programme Curator Michael Hill. The talk takes place on the occasion of the opening of Reflex Blue, a group exhibition at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

All three artists use language and image-making to disrupt ways of understanding and communication that are supposedly universal. Each artist’s work explores the cultural impact of images and their relationship to storytelling and technology. Using formatting, modification, compositing and erasure, their work seizes instances of multiplicity and mystery.

Lyndon Barrois Jr. is interested in the sleight-of-hand that relates the cinematic world with that of an artwork conservator. Embracing the power and limitations of print media processes, he uses the suspension of belief as a moment where an alternate reality and history can become conceivable.

Elisa Giardina Papa’s film installation “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale, invokes historically overlooked multi-species mythologies and practices of healing. The film and accompanying ceramic sculptures depict iconography from Sicilian fables and oral tradition from what the artist describes as a “socio-poetic and socio-magical” archive.

Léann Herlihy’s With Everything We’ve Got! takes stylistic reference from alt text/image description, and utilises frameworks of coalition building. This body of work moves against common understandings of sporting bodies and situates itself as a warm-up for an expansive project that realises an active state of losing/falling as an embodied response to systemic injustice.

With thanks to The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art for their support of this exhibition. This exhibition has been supported by an IMMA Production Residency.

Reflex Blue is on view 28 July - 24 September 2023. Click here to read more about the exhibition.

Image Description: Three portraits are placed beside each other. The first image is of Lyndon Barrois Jr., a person of colour with dark brown hair and moustache who is looking into the distance. Lyndon is wearing a brown jacket and is standing in front of a white background, a blue and grey painting is just visible behind him to the right. The second is of Elisa Giardina Papa, a person with dark hair tied back in a low ponytail looking back into the lens of the camera. She is seated and reclining with her legs crossed, wearing a pale pink puffer jacket, a white T-shirt and grey jeans. The background is a pale grey stone building. The third image is of Léann Herlihy, a white person with a dark brown mullet, is looking back into the lens of the camera. They are wearing a purple t-shirt which has been embroidered over the heart and states ‘SIAD/IAD’ in yellow cursive font. A gold chain and necklace with a pendant hangs from their neck. They have two large hoop earrings in their left ear. The background is a natural landscape with green and purple foliage.