Jamin Keogh, Untitled I (from the We Spill Into Places series)

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Untitled I (from the We Spill Into Places series)
2024
Photography
30 x 40 cm Framed
Edition of 3
€255 Framed (includes 13.5% VAT)

We Spill Into Places, a working title,  is a lens-based exploration merging principles of physics and the existential philosophy of Martin Heidegger, particularly his concept of Dasein, with a focus on the things we care about and the way we engage with the world around us. Drawing from Heidegger’s care structure; facticity, existentiality, and fallenness, this developing project visualises human presence as an active force that spills into and shapes the places we inhabit with emphasis on the fluid interactions between our existence, memory, and the physical and emotional spaces that bear the imprints of our lives.

The series translates scientific principles like entropy, energy transference, and wave interference into visual expressions of Dasein, illustrating how our “being-there” in the world is marked by both intentional and subconscious impacts. In its reflection on facticity, the series acknowledges the circumstances into which we are thrown; our unchosen settings, histories, and surroundings. Existentiality is echoed in the active choices we make, shaping who we are and how we occupy our world. Finally, fallenness is represented through the ways we are drawn into everyday existence, sometimes forgetting our connection to the spaces we move through. Together, these layers of care structure speak to how memories and energies permeate our environments, altering them even after we leave.

We Spill Into Places invites viewers to reflect on existence as an interwoven experience, where the boundaries between self, memory, and boundaries and environment are continually overlapping. It is a meditation on presence, the traces we leave, and the inescapable connections we share with places and how they carry pieces of us, and how, in turn, they shape our own identities and narratives.

About the Artist

Jamin Keogh (b. 1982) is a lens based artist, from Limerick and living in Dublin, IE. He holds a First Class Honours Degree in Photography, Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT), a Masters in Art & Research Collaboration (IADT), and a first class honours of the Masters in Social Science programme from National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM). Jamin has been involved with art practices as an artist, curator, and a visiting lecturer at numerous Irish third level institutions.

During his time at IADT, Jamin’s work was nominated to represent the institution on the European art circuit at ELIA NEU/NOW and Le Bal. His work has been short-listed for the Inspirational Arts Award, and been shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA). In 2018, Jamin’s project Moyross Study was exhibited as part of the main series of exhibitions at PhotoIreland, and was selected to represent Ireland at the prestigious European photography festival Unseen Amsterdam as part of the inaugural FUTURES Platform. In 2019, the artist’s long term research project, A Constant Parameter, was selected by international jury to part of the triennial, New Irish Works. The project was presented for the first time at Museum of Contemporary Photography of Ireland, at Dublin Castle.

Within the creative process, Jamin draws inspiration and meaning from subjective human reactions to life experiences and merges audio-visual media into his photographic expressions, placing an emphasis on the role of the spectator within the artwork’s space. This was demonstrated in the deeply layered psychological installation, All That Remains To Be Seen. His practice is often infused by an everyday curiosity as well as sociological and philosophical discourses such as: Martin Heidegger’s theories of ‘Human-being & Art'; Emmanuel Levinas’ theories of ‘the Face’ & ‘the Other’; Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space (1974). Lefebvre’s argument is that space is not a natural given, but instead is an abstract, social construct based on economic systems, hierarchical power structures and the class system, which shapes human perception and limits agency and autonomy. The latter provides valuable insights into Jamin's professional trajectory in the field of social justice.

Postage and Collection

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