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- Joanne Hegarty
Joanne
Hegarty
CONTINGENT PROCESS
Joanne Hegarty’s practice blurs the line between paint and sculpture. Her installations are based on manipulating the architecture of the space. She investigates the properties of paint to accentuate a visual experience for the viewer within a space. She creates semi-transparent, reflective polymer sheets which engage a viewer as one is able to see their own mirrored image along with seeing through it.
Hegarty invites the viewer to become space aware. She creates installations that produce a visual vortex which swallows up a gaze. She embraces the intervention of gravity as paint splashes and slides on a minimal background. Other metaphysical contingencies also enter the work, such as time and light, producing open-ended work. Michael Fried discussed the experience between the viewer and the object in relation to theatre. A psychological as well as physical experience was thought about in association with the object. This immersive experience is explored in Joanne Hegarty’s practice.
The temporary structures are documented through photography which adds a further illusion to the space. Hegarty compiles her photographic work in artist books made as a legacy to each installation.