Catriona Osborne
There is a polarisation within the Catholic Church’s teachings. Divine and sin. Devotion and hostility. These poles are harmful and restraining as they leave no room for coalescence. This is reflected by depicting inside and outside, drawing on the same simple image. When used repetitively, images take on new forms to investigate the interaction of the conscious and sub-conscious. The images explored are Catholic architectural features, simplified to their most basic form. These canopy windows are used to honour saints pictured in stained glass, what does it mean if these windows are left hollow?
“Let us observe that this nightmare is not visually frightening. The fear does not come from the outside nor is it composed of old memories it has no past, no physiology.”
-Poetics of Space Gaston Bachelard
A practice of collection and current in that sanctifies the quotidian through still and moving images creating a fugue state within the lacuna of the everyday.
Osborne collects images, videos and materials and consolidates them over years of working and reworking. She legitimizes the mundane in these pieces that range from video, darkroom photography and textiles. Through this mundanity she causes a loss of awareness of one’s identity, a blankness in which new thoughts may grow in the absence of distractions of the exciting. Osborne focuses on the mundane, the simple and the habitual.