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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: WORK OF THE WEEK 29 DRAGANA JURISIC PORTRAIT OF POET PAULA MEEHAN
Description: Dragana Jurišić, Paula Meehan, 2018, photographic print Conor Tallon and Curator Michael Waldron take a closer look at one of The Crawford's most recent acquisitions for this WORK OF THE WEEK!A spectre, an echo, a memory… this photographic portrait by Dragana Jurišić is as multi-layered as its subject. Captured in mid-speech with multiple frames overlaid, the poet Paula Meehan is dynamically presented to the viewer, perhaps recalling or conjuring a deep past, her gestures like an incantation.As the artist herself says, the portrait “is from our book Museum (2019), which is an ode to t...