Lucy Tevlin

A selection from the archive

Lucy Tevlin is a visual artist based in Dublin. Her practice is shaped by a conceptual approach to image making. She uses image, text, film, and found materials to methodically interrogate the spatial, mechanical, and historical properties of photographic technologies. Her work examines how images are made, presented and distributed, primarily using apparatus on the brink of obsolescence. The subject matter of her work is often referential to the medium used. Her practice inquires into the nature of representation, temporality, technological progress and acts of looking. Visit the artist's website to discover more https://lucy-tevlin.format.com/

In CCA Lucy Tevlin presents unopened rolls of developed 8mm film sourced online from Ebay, their contents unknown to both artist and viewer. Partially obscured images from the online listing page are accompanied by text projections that speculate on the content of the films. The work shifts attention away from the image itself and towards the fragile technologies and structures that produce it, questioning how images are made, withheld and imagined.

Selected from the Digital Film Archive, this series of films explore DIY analogue filmmaking through home movies, artists’ films, and archival footage. This selection explores thematics such as domestic home video making, documentation of labour, humour and lightness of amateur filmmaking and the framing of memory.