Born 1964 in Co. Down (IRL) Lived and worked at Slane, Co. Meath (IRL) The work of the Irish artist Patrick Jolley spans photography, video installation and cinema. Jolley’s films use low tech special effects to articulate those aspects of a place or situation that are present but not visible. The results are dark and melancholic while retaining the possibility of humour. Jolley’s work has been seen at the 2008 Gwangzhou Triennial, the 2006 Berlin Biennial and the 2009 Tierra del Fuego Biennial. His work is in the collections of several major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art.

Patrick Jolley
Ireland
2006 | 0:11:00

A building starts to be allergic to the substances left by the inhabitants. The walls suffer from eczema, warts and oozing wounds; the building is alive but sick.

Patrick Jolley
Ireland
2008 | 0:11:00

Boredom creats its own dreams. Repetitions structure a place and let the constructions seem less substancial. The logic of the changements let things flowing without control and cause events of little destructions.

Patrick Jolley
Ireland
2008 | 0:07:00

Monkeys have taken power on the earth. A surrealistic vision.

Patrick Jolley
Ireland
2009 | 0:05:00

Sounds of slow traffic on a rainy street. A man in a cheap suit lies on the bed in a quiet apartment. Snakes entwine him, crawling in and out of his clothes.

Patrick Jolley
Irlande
2011 | 1:30:00

On August 14th 1937 the French poet, Antonin Artaud arrived in Ireland.. He had with him a walking stick he claimed to be St Patrick’s staff. His declared intention was to return this item to its rightful keepers. Six weeks later he was arrested while trying to gain entrance to a religious house. No other records of his journey remain except for an unpaid lodgings bill and some postcards sent from Galway The Door Ajar uses an assembly of Artaud’s writings as the structure of a possible account of that lost time.