‘Time Tries All Things’ opens at the Solstice Arts Centre on Saturday

Grace Weir is a Dublin artist whose work ranges from film and video to photographic, painting, installation or web projects and lecture-performances. Her latest exhibition ‘The History of Light’ comes to Navan on 30th September, running until 17th November. To celebrate the opening reception, there will be a wine reception at 2.30pm on Saturday in Solstice’s gallery, followed by an intimate ‘walk and talk’ introduction to the exhibition by the artist.

'The History of Light’ unfolds the fixing of a moment that occurs when taking a photograph, to write a text with light about time. Consisting of a new series of painted works and a filmic installation, the works investigate the key tenets of photography, the nature of light and time to move away from linear, progressive conceptions of time and unsettle hierarchies of rational experience and theoretical abstractions. Exploring the correlation between our understanding of time and light to our perceptions of memory and history, the works consider the photographic as a continual mutable site of encounter in the creation of imaginaries.

The material oscillates with the temporal in a new body of painted works that consist of photograms made from light refracted in the darkroom, and later overpainted with non-lightfast photographic inks.

‘Time Tries All Things’ a video installation commissioned by The Institute of Physics in the UK and Ireland, pivots on the unfolding of a moment, when a snapshot is taken of a 19th century stone plaque carved with the words ‘Time trieth troth’. Developed from a collaboration with two theoretical physicists, who differ in their radical consideration of whether the future exists or not, the installation expands into a consideration of the elasticity of the present instant within the flux of history.

Weir is an artist whose work ranges from film and video to installation, photographic, painting or web projects and lecture-performances.

One particular area of Weir’s work is her unique approach to research, based on encounters with specifics such as objects, archives and locations or with philosophers, scientists or practitioners from other disciplines. She has a particular interest in the way we construct, rationalise and experience time and space, and its relationship to our concepts of reality and representation, memory and record, history and the future, underpinned by the particular entities and theories under her scrutiny, whether cultural, scientific, or philosophical.