Michael John Whelan
Video Installation
Film
Photography
Objects
Paper & Sound
Info
News
Echoes of evaporation
and submergence

1991
And they did live by watchfires
Nocturne
Untitled
Darkness had no need
These last breaths
The time of cruel wonders
was not yet over

In the black dark for good
Carapace
That we were to wait
Like force and matter
Lupus
20 Vertices, 30 Edges
and 160 Diagonals

Dune
Transit of Venus
Over the echoing gateway
Stars/Star
Shadowplay
Archway (diptych)
Over the echoing gateway
2012
chromogenic prints on Dibond, 100 x 100cm
installed at Understanding Magnetism, Grey Noise, Dubai (2012)
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Three analogue photographs present dark abstract shapes set against long exposures of the night sky. Upon closer investigation the shapes are revealed to be details of the wings of an ATR-42 passenger aircraft. The distant background contrasts the immediacy of these man-made objects which reference ideas of modernity and globalisation.