PAGAN POP

Celeste Aldahn, Tamara Dean, Julia deVille, Jessica Herrington, Robbie Harmel, Owen Lewis, Kate Rhode, Helen Shelley, Marian Tubbs

Curated by Yolande Norris

Friday 14th October 2011 - Saturday 19th November 2011

CCAS Gorman

In our busy, rational, technology driven world, it is little wonder that we dream of something different, an alternative world where life is natural, magical, and primitive. This is a collective desire, a collective nostalgia for a time firmly planted in a possibly unreachable future, and in a possibly invented past.

The once huge mythical appeal of technology - that insatiable future lust - has all but dried up as the digital era becomes as pedestrian and suburban as all Earth-shattering advancements before it. We want something else. And we can click right through into a wash of imagery, hungry for the pictures, the symbols, the ephemera of other times, to cultures and beliefs that might promise to pro-vide.

Image: Tamara Dean, The Pack, 2010, Pure pigment print on archival cotton rag, 86cm x 150cm