The City Reliquary Proudly Presents:
Patrick O’Hare: New York Landscapes
Film Screening & Reception: Friday, May 17th, 7 PM
Patrick O’Hare is a photographer and filmmaker who explores the architecture and landscape of the modern world. His films evoke that strange language of merging and omission that allows reality to slip and hints at the invisible. Through the cracks, something startles and vanishes – the shape-shifting riddle of inside and outside.
On May 17, the City Reliquary will screen three of O’Hare’s recent films: Chimera, New York City Landscapes; The Highlands; and The Ecstasy of Ruins. Shot in 2018 in New York City, the Hudson River Valley, and upstate New York respectively, these works explore the natural and manufactured elements of our landscape, blurring the line between permanence and the evanescent to form a more elusive state of being. A discussion with the artist and reception will follow the screening. Chimera, New York City Landscapes will be on continuous view in the City Reliquary’s gallery in the following weeks.
The May 17 screening is free with late night admission to the City Reliquary Museum, a suggested donation of $7.
Patrick O’Hare’s photographs have been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Parsons School of Design, and Rhode Island School of Design. He has screened his films at UnionDocs in Brooklyn, New York and the Unseen Film Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Synopsis:
Chimera, New York Landscapes (2018). HD, Silent, 18:00
A city as hybrid of public and private, modern efficiency and timeless elements, projected through light and weather, refracted and collaged.
The Highlands (2018). HD, Silent, 18:41
A series of Hudson Valley landscapes, the film asks what a river and its environs evoke as an ancient conduit to a present state of mind.
The Ecstasy of Ruins (2018). HD, Silent, 19:27
The quiet geography of upstate New York reveals an architecture of melancholy and a twilight civilization writ large.
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