Jaki Irvine 
Nightingale (2005)

10 minutes 9 seconds
16mm film transferred to DVD
Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London

"Things become duplicated in Tlon; they also come to be effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheatre."
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (1961)   

"In 2004 I did a residency at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. I was thinking about the process of forgetting and remembering which Borges was describing and which the sculpture archive seemed to have at its core, along with the preponderance of photographs of temples and gazebos, monuments, statues and memorials that occupy so many of its shelves. It was around that time I returned to a piece of film I had shot in the Villa Borghese in Rome and had left aside for a couple of years. The temple ended up being revealed and upheld like a function of the nightingale's song, while this process allowed the song itself to become visible." Jaki Irvine

Bio

Jaki Irvine has built a substantial and highly acclaimed body of film and video art that is profoundly concerned with the limits of human knowledge and experience. Irvine’s engrossing, elliptical narratives are at times composed of fragments of everyday life—mundane incidents that, viewed via Irvine’s singular, assiduously selective gaze, become occasions of heightened strangeness. Jaki Irvine lives and works between Dublin and Mexico and is a regular artist advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Ack Ro’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, (23 January –29 February 2020); If the Ground Should Open..., Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2016–2017); City of Women, The LAB, Dublin, (2010); Seven Folds in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2009); In a World Like This, The Model, Sligo, (2006), travelling to Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007); The Silver Bridge, SMART, Amsterdam(2006); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2005); Nightingale, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, (2005); Plans for forgotten works, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, (2005); Ivana’s Answers, Delfina Project Space, London, (2001); "Fledermaus she said…." Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany,(1998) and Eyelashes, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, (1996). In 1997, Irvine represented Ireland in the Venice Biennale. Jaki Irvine is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.

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Jaki Irvine 
Nightingale (2005)

10 minutes 9 seconds
16mm film transferred to DVD
Courtesy the artist and Frith Street Gallery, London

"Things become duplicated in Tlon; they also come to be effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheatre."
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths (1961)   

"In 2004 I did a residency at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds. I was thinking about the process of forgetting and remembering which Borges was describing and which the sculpture archive seemed to have at its core, along with the preponderance of photographs of temples and gazebos, monuments, statues and memorials that occupy so many of its shelves. It was around that time I returned to a piece of film I had shot in the Villa Borghese in Rome and had left aside for a couple of years. The temple ended up being revealed and upheld like a function of the nightingale's song, while this process allowed the song itself to become visible." Jaki Irvine

Bio

Jaki Irvine has built a substantial and highly acclaimed body of film and video art that is profoundly concerned with the limits of human knowledge and experience. Irvine’s engrossing, elliptical narratives are at times composed of fragments of everyday life—mundane incidents that, viewed via Irvine’s singular, assiduously selective gaze, become occasions of heightened strangeness. Jaki Irvine lives and works between Dublin and Mexico and is a regular artist advisor at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Ack Ro’, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, (23 January –29 February 2020); If the Ground Should Open..., Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (2016–2017); City of Women, The LAB, Dublin, (2010); Seven Folds in Time, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2009); In a World Like This, The Model, Sligo, (2006), travelling to Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007); The Silver Bridge, SMART, Amsterdam(2006); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2005); Nightingale, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, (2005); Plans for forgotten works, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, (2005); Ivana’s Answers, Delfina Project Space, London, (2001); "Fledermaus she said…." Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden, Germany,(1998) and Eyelashes, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, (1996). In 1997, Irvine represented Ireland in the Venice Biennale. Jaki Irvine is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin.