Erin Quinn, “Surveillance” ,
Centre for Creative Practices in Pembroke Street, Dublin,
August 2010
From The Irish Times 2010
[…] Quinn drills home the manner in which we are relentlessly watched on screen. Her photographs and footage deal with the increased surveillance of public, work and private spaces in modern life. Quinn takes airports as her case study. She spent a year in Dublin airport, photographing passengers from the top-down perspective of a CCTV camera. At first the photographs strike the viewer as exceptionally normal, with the graphic details of the figures’ clothing or baggage set off against a bland background. On further inspection they’re more troubling, insidious…
Her airport sessions were inspired by French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-84), particularly his studies of 18th-century designs for a “Panopticon”. […]
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