REGARDS TO THE FAMILY

Debra Porch

Friday 27th May 2011 - Saturday 2nd July 2011

CCAS Gorman CUBE

Debra Porch uses installation as a powerful catalyst to explore the visible and unseen ties that connect the past to the present Her work draws attention to the way memory transforms the ordinary, empha-sising the singular and exceptional in the everyday. 'Regards to the family' begins from this premise, using specific objects and images as conduits for memory and the visual mechanisms of installation to re-orientate our sense of the familiar. The work refers directly to Porch's Armenian heritage and to the way the work's title communicates wider bonds with the filial appearing in and out of our memories. (José Da Silva, 2011)

Image: Debra Porch, Regards to the Family, 2011 Installation -photographs, painting by unknown artist, DVD (original footage taken by Carl Slight c.1960, sound component by artist), basalt rocks, gold chain and crystal heart, electroplated camera, and taxidermy birds