Artist Bio
Michael Fortune (b.1987) is a native of Enniscorthy Co. Wexford. Fortune is a graduate from Waterford Institute of Technology with First Class Honours in the BA (Hons) in Visual Art who works predominately with film, photography and installation. Fortune received a 6 month residency from GOMA Waterford and was a Longlisted Artist for the RDS Awards. Currently undertaking an MA in Socially Engaged Art at the National College of Art and Design, Fortune situates part of his practice in addiction services projects in Dublin City and Waterford. In addition Fortune's work has been displayed nationally in several solo shows.
Fortune's work investigates the relationship between individuals and the space in which they exist. With reference to pre narrative cinema, Jungian psychology and Mythology the unstructured nature of events intends to allude to the presence of the camera as a mere coincidental event in a recurring cycle of decay.
With a strong emphasis on lighting Fortune enables the figures to merge into the surroundings, as the events unfold and a sense of foreboding is heightened. As a result of this the performers exist in a sense of suspended animation, drifting through the space which takes significance above their existence.
The interior serving as the manifestation of the self, subjective and private, while the exterior forms the object, void of emotion yet serving as a tomb like structure for the inhabitants.
"Time has its own inertia...time is in fact matter, a different kind of material" - Virilio
Michael Fortune (b.1987) is a native of Enniscorthy Co. Wexford. Fortune is a graduate from Waterford Institute of Technology with First Class Honours in the BA (Hons) in Visual Art who works predominately with film, photography and installation. Fortune received a 6 month residency from GOMA Waterford and was a Longlisted Artist for the RDS Awards. Currently undertaking an MA in Socially Engaged Art at the National College of Art and Design, Fortune situates part of his practice in addiction services projects in Dublin City and Waterford. In addition Fortune's work has been displayed nationally in several solo shows.
Fortune's work investigates the relationship between individuals and the space in which they exist. With reference to pre narrative cinema, Jungian psychology and Mythology the unstructured nature of events intends to allude to the presence of the camera as a mere coincidental event in a recurring cycle of decay.
With a strong emphasis on lighting Fortune enables the figures to merge into the surroundings, as the events unfold and a sense of foreboding is heightened. As a result of this the performers exist in a sense of suspended animation, drifting through the space which takes significance above their existence.
The interior serving as the manifestation of the self, subjective and private, while the exterior forms the object, void of emotion yet serving as a tomb like structure for the inhabitants.
"Time has its own inertia...time is in fact matter, a different kind of material" - Virilio