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This is a photograph of a gallery at IMMA, centres on the corner of a large room filled with blue light. On the left a doorway leads to the next room, and two more doorways can be seen beyond. Hanging from the ceiling is a large square metal frame with lights on it. The two walls that we can see are painted with thick black undulating horizontal lines, which might represent a landscape or perhaps electrical interference. The installation is titled ‘Who Does the Earth Think it Is?’ by the Otolith Group. Where the walls meet, the lines become less horizontal, forming a flower-like shape, or perhaps a ravine. There are two long corner shelves attached to the wall, one at perhaps 5ft height, and one at perhaps 3ft height, and there is a light source below the upper shelf. Stands on both shelves display what appear to be letters and charts. A white man is standing in the corner with his arms folded and his back to the camera, looking at the documents on the shelves. He is dressed all in blue, so he blends in well with the room.

567K

Visitors

Representing a 13% increase versus 2019

In this photograph, a woman sits in shadow with her back to the camera on a polished floor watching the performance artist Amanda Coogan create her piece ‘Yellow’. Amanda, a spotlit white woman with blond hair wears a long yellow dress that trails the floor in front of her, and appears to be sitting on something we can’t see in a window or doorway. She appears in a trance, her knees wide apart, her left arm is slightly bent and out to the side. Her right arm, also bent, points casually towards the observer. The folds of the fabric in the skirt are accentuated and you realise that they are dotted with soap suds. Her mouth is stopped with what could be white fabric, or more soap suds could be bubbling out from within her.

215k

Online

Unique visitors to www.imma.ie

This is a photograph of a gallery room at IMMA, with a light-coloured, polished wooden floor, hung with a selection of pieces from The Narrow Gate exhibition. Rails with lights run along the edges of the ceiling. To the right is a large window. A light, floor-length, golden coloured curtain covers the left-hand side of the window, and continues into the corner of the room, meeting a similar curtain which could be drawn to cover the wall perpendicular to the window, but is drawn back. The wall is a pale blue, and is hung with, from right to left, a large golden coloured landscape canvas or board covered with botanical drawings mostly in a muted green but with touches of blue, white, red and black; a smaller framed painting hung level with the top of the larger canvas, depicts a white man in an apricot coloured shirt sitting at a shiny, round, blue table with an electric fan on a shelf to his left and a painting of a garden with flowers behind him; further to the left, but hung at the same height is another, smaller, landscape canvas or board. This has a black background with two green, curved shapes tied together taking up the bottom half, and ‘abcd’ in large cursive orange writing, with ‘efghijk’ in slightly smaller but similar writing, underneath. Below that is a row of three much smaller black and white images, most likely photographs. The first are in white frames and contain three botanical close up images of stems and a mushroom, juxtaposed starkly with the third photograph on the right which has a black frame and shows a mushroom cloud after a nuclear explosion. Along the bottom below all but the largest canvas are four images of varying sizes, which all appear to be prints. The first shows a sculpture of a seated winged figure to the left in front of a blackboard on an easel with a globe below it; the second shows a row of trees receding from the viewer; the third depicts grasses and bullrushes; and the last what might be botanicals tied in a bunch. There is a rectangular black bench seat a metre or so from the wall.

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A photographed view of the courtyard at IMMA with the North Range partially obscured by a temporary installation, the Eco-Pavilion, a large, almost spherical lattice construction made of willow. Two people wearing winter jackets stand in the foreground with their backs to us discussing the piece. Three people can be seen inside the structure, which is perfectly centred under IMMA’s green-blue clock tower, with its sharply pointed copper spire rising into a slightly hazy blue sky behind.

9,000

Attendees at the inaugural Earth Rising festival

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8

New exhibitions during the year

4

New outdoor commissions

179

Outdoor events

40

Evening experiences

1,800

Guests at IMMA Summer Party

990

Attendees hosted at IMMA Summer School

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