New exhibition opens at Hugh Lane Gallery, Kennedy Browne: The Redaction Trilogy, open till 26th January 2020

Hugh Lane Gallery is delighted to present the first solo museum exhibition in Ireland by the collaborative practice of Kennedy Browne.  The exhibition, officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Paul Mc Auliffe, serves as a critical milestone of Kennedy Browne as the practice enters its 15th year.

Speaking at the opening on October 23rd, the Lord Mayor said, “Kennedy Browne’s exhibition begins to lift the veil of secrecy and facelessness through which digital multinational corporations operate and reveal the human consequences. I congratulate the Hugh Lane Gallery in staging this exhibition the subject matter of which is very relevant to modern life and I encourage members of the public to visit the Hugh Lane Gallery and experience it at first hand”.

Hugh Lane Gallery, Kennedy Browne: The Redaction Trilogy

The exhibition traces a quasi-history of societal change brought about through technological progress over the last two decades. Redacted and scripted from materials such as online forums and business biographies, their work explores the impact of digitisation on labour, the mythologizing of the founders of technology industry and the disruptive impacts of this technology on the politics, privacy, social behaviour and civil rights of the 21st century citizen.

The exhibition consists of three installations. How Capital Moves (2010); The Myth of the Many in the One including The Wonder Years (2013) and Real World Harm (2018).

In addition, Kennedy Browne has secured permission to present to the public the redacted 811 page document of Max Schrems’ Facebook record. Schrems, an Austrian privacy rights activist, won landmark cases against the social media giant in the European courts. Kennedy Browne, considers this document an artefact of great significance given the toxic disruptions to democratic, political and civic discourse by the harvesting of personal data that has since been exposed through the American 2016 elections and Brexit.

Kennedy Browne commented, “Its presentation serves as a call for democratic civic address to the excesses of unaccountable corporate power.”

Barbara Dawson, Director, Hugh Lane Gallery said, “This provocative exhibition challenges us to fundamentally review the use of pervasive technology and debate its future uses.”

Michael Dempsey, Head of Exhibitions continued, “In the work of Kennedy Browne we see how the platforms that have been developed to connect us are ironically being twisted against democratic expression”

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A new publication will accompany this exhibition with essays by Jessica Foley, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow MUSSI and Amy L. Powell, PhD, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Krannert Art Museum, Illinois, USA.

Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne established Kennedy Browne in 2005 seeking to address the narratives of neoliberal capitalism as a fiction. They work mainly with moving image, working with collaborative processes of scripting, editing, and re-staging in locations they identify as significant within the plot of global capitalism. Kennedy Browne co-represented Ireland at the 53rd Venice Biennale with the artists’ own solo practices.

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