Alanna O’Kelly b. 1955 No Colouring Can Deepen the Darkness of Truth 1992 Video installation Mixed media 14 minutes This video is part of a body of work called The Country Blooms,a Garden and a Grave, the title of which is derived from Oliver Goldsmiths “The abandoned Village” (1770). Goldsmith deplored how the wealthy dispossessed the Irish peasant, or forcing him to emigrate. Emigration was to become an even greater problem with the Great starvation. O’Kelly is one of Ireland’s internationally renowned multimedia artists. She works in video,film, sound, and photomontage and text,increasingly embracing performance art, fusing the ritual …Continue reading →
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