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A Very Short Space of Time Through Very Short Times of Space

This solo exhibition of four photographic and two video projects is an extension of Hamann’s research into perception of images. Hamann was invited by Gallery of Photography Ireland to exhibit in spring 2008 and commissioned to develop the first ever site specific installation for the gallery, entitled ‘Whatever It’s Doing It’s Doing It Now’ (2008). This was visible from Meeting House Square in the cultural centre of Dublin. The exhibition also included ‘Film Strip’ (2008), ‘The Walking Up and Down Bit’ (2008) and ‘Lehmann and Lehmann’ (2008). The exhibition was funded by The Arts Council Ireland, the British Council and the Goethe Institute. The catalogue was funded by an Arts Council Ireland Publication Award. It includes an essay by Sean Rainbird, former Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Tate Gallery, former Director of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and current Director of the National Gallery, Ireland. The show was reviewed by Gemma Tipton, independent writer and critic of contemporary art and architecture based in Dublin, in CIRCA, an Irish journal dedicated to contemporary art and its practices, funded by The Arts Council Ireland (autumn 2008). The exhibition led to Hamann’s collaboration with the Goethe Institute and Tate Modern for her conference 'Stillness and Movement' at Tate in 2010 and a site specific film-strip installation for the new extension of the Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany. Derivatives of the works shown in Dublin were installed in September 2013 at Durham Art Gallery and the Multiple Store, an organisation which commissions new limited editions by contemporary artists.