Join us for a screening of Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, by artist Jesse Jones at the Light House Cinema, Smithfield.
In partnership with Light House Cinema, we are delighted to present a screening of Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, by artist Jesse Jones at the Light House Cinema, Smithfield Square on Tuesday 26 May at 6pm.
The screening will be introduced by film curator Alice Butler, who will also mediate a post-screening Q+A with artist Jesse Jones.
Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon:
Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon by artist Jesse Jones is a cartographic operatic film work based on the life of three women: Artemisia Gentileschi, the 17th century painter, St Catherine the Christian Martyr, and Hypatia of Alexandria.
Taking its inspiration from The Gentileschi painting of 1616, “Self Portrait as St Catherine the Martyr” Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon, explores how the mirror has been used as a device of self-representation and a powerful tool of feminist cinema. The film includes a score composed by Irene Buckley, starring Colombian American singer Stephanie Lamprea, and featuring the music of Francesca Caccini and text drawn from the poetry of Christine de Pizan.
Location: Light House Cinema, Market St S, Smithfield, Dublin 7, D07 R6YE
Map link HERE
This film programme is part of Hugh Lane Gallery’s Explore & Learn offsite education programming during the gallery’s period of temporary closure.
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Jesse Jones is an artist based in Ireland. She studied for her BA in fine art at the national college of art and design and Ma in IADT Dublin. Her practice is multi-platform, working in film installation, performance and sculpture. Using a form of expanded cinema she explores suppressed archetypes and myth as feminist potentialities. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 with her installation “Tremble Tremble”.
She has had solo presentations at Guggenheim Bilbao, Artsonje Seoul, Talbot Rice Edinburgh, Hugh Lane Gallery and Spike island UK. Kunsthalle Gent has commissioned her work “Syllabus” as part of the permanent exhibition programme.
Her work Tremble Tremble is held in Hugh Lane Gallery’s permanent collection.
