Pease join us for the opening of Dorje de Burgh's exhibition and a publication launch on Saturday, January 25th.
On the occasion of the exhibition the zine Now is the Time will be launched. The publication is a collaboration comprising Una Mullally’s poem (which lends the title) and Dorje de Burgh’s photographs of a year of protest in Berlin. It is an object of solidarity and also a donation mechanism (all proceeds, not a percentage) for Gaza Mutual Aid Collective, raising money to help and assist loved ones in Gaza.
Dorje de Burgh (*1984, Dublin) lives and works between Killarney, Dublin & Berlin.
His practice uses photography, the archive, language, and film to explore libidinal excess within structures of power and the paradoxes of (image) desire in an increasingly fractured present.
Following nomination as a member of the FUTURES European mentorship program, Dorje received the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Award 2020 and The Darkroom moving image residency 2020/21, producing his second solo exhibition How To Kill Something That Doesn’t Exist in association with PhotoIreland Festival 2021. What Are The Roots That Clutch, his first artist’s monograph, was published by PhotoIreland in January 2022.
Dorje’s two most recent works — Under the Same Sky and Boring Photographs — resulted in his third solo exhibition at South Tipperary Arts Centre, a two-person site-specific show and publication launch in Berlin in collaboration with Chris Dreier of the Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence, and the historical photographic survey KUNST - FOTO - KUNST at the Clemens-Sels-Museums, Dusseldorf.
His work is held in numerous private collections, and has recently been acquired by The Arts Council of Ireland, PhotoIreland and Photo Museum Ireland for their respective public collections.
Special thanks to Samuel Laurence Cunnane.
Image: Dorje de Burgh, Interior, Cabra, 2021
