Gerard Byrne

An exhibition of work that looks at the ambiguities inherent in historicising the legacy of representational forms to address broader critical questions. Referencing diverse sources from modernist theatre to Playboy magazine articles, Byrne questions the history of cultural consensus that grows around these subjects. Through selection and carefully nuanced reproduction, Byrne's work exposes the anomalies that affect the materiality of a picture, object or fact when transposed from its original historical context to the present time. With a keen awareness of how representation fundamentally alters the subject observed, the exhibition proposes a loose correspondence among historical materials, obliquely assembling a class of more archetypal forms.