Aideen Barry (b. 1980) Monocopsis Drawings

Available through The Art Library

Year	2020
Size	52 prints, 30cm x 22.49cm
Medium	Print
Materials	Digital prints on archival Hahnmuhle paper
On Display	UCC Student Centre
Provenance	Acquired from artist, 2020

There are 52 drawings in the Monocopsis series, made by the artist when she was working from home during the Covid19 pandemic. The cheerful colours used in the prints seem at odds with the spiky subject matter that combines domestic objects, body parts
and smart phones. The title refers to the term monachopsis - a persistent feeling of being out of place - and the images capture the unease of being confined to our everyday surroundings while watching a catastrophic global event unfold through digital screens. The artist observed that “the drawings act as a kind of antidepressant intended to be bleak and funny in the same instant”.

Aideen Barry’s practice encompasses a vast range of disciplines and subjects, such as domestic labour, environmental fracture, and human vulnerability, while meditating on feminism, class, intersectionality, and inequality. Her diverse means of expression includes performance, sculpture, film, text and experimental lens-based media.