Sinéad Mc Guinness

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Sinéad Mc Guinness’ work is a playful interpretation of domestic spaces and issues. She concentrates on 3-dimensional constructions built from 2-dimensional images. She presents the narrative of each space in a magical and questioning way, allowing the audience to engage deeply into the situation they are observing. Her creations bend the line between truth and illusion. Each of her photographs is one or more steps removed from reality, creating friction and tension between the fabricated and the real. Her dioramas allow her to play a lot more with removing images from their original existence and slightly allow the audience to be confused, imagine, and wonder.

Reconstructing and memory are two very important components in Sinead’s work. The physical interior of the spaces she creates are inspired from the houses she has occupied and visited. The viewer is presented with a disorder of furnishings and interior features. Each scene has a non-specific narrative so when the observer looks at the images of each space, they are given the freedom to enquire about what is happening and compose their own thoughts and perspectives from the atmosphere they may sense.

To Sinéad, her interior rooms are not only a reflection of the environments around her , but she feels they are a reflection of the mechanisms of photography. Her staged photographs are not simply about the deception of the eye. In the elements of her photographs, there is a question of second thoughts and unusual circumstance. The tinge of fantasy which features in her work adds to its seduction.