Possession

A new work specially created for Galway Arts Festival 2011. Visual Aideen Barry presents a number of drawing vignettes to accompany a new performative film Possession. Barry explores the notion of the contemporary haunted, Possession responds to the notion of being posessed or haunted in some way. Her protagonist is a creature that reflects cognitive dissonance, a housewife who succumbs to a morbid set of circumstances. Trapped in a modern House of Usher, the character responds to her environment, her appliances, her household obligation through absurd gesture that defy reality, and darkly humerours phenomenological reasoning, that plays on our perceptions of the everyday experience of modern living.