A Woman Walks Alone at Night with a Camera
Photobook launch and signing with artist Ruby Wallis and writer Phillina Sun.
Thursday May 19, 5.15pm in the bookshop at Gallery of Photography Ireland.
Free admission, all welcome, copies available exclusively at GPI May 19th.
A Woman Walks Alone At Night, With a Camera features photographs by Ruby Wallis and an essay by Phillina Sun, centered around the experience of walking at night as a woman. Designed by Eimearjean McCormack, the publication links to image and text through the figure of the flâneuse, framed here as a subversive, imaginative explorer who wanders the city according to her desire, deterritorialising an urban landscape traditionally seen as a male domain.
The publication visually and poetically engages with psychogeography through a feminist lens, thus addressing an urgent need for liberating representations constructed by a female gaze that confronts the issues women face when they walk in the city day or night.
Speaker biographies:
Ruby Wallis is a visual artist who is based in Engage Art Studios, Galway. She lectures photography at The Burren College of Art and exhibits and publishes her work widely. Upcoming exhibitions include Bones in The Attic, Hugh Lane, Gallery, and Opening The Gates, PhotoIreland Festival.
Visit Ruby’s website
Phillina Sun is a writer based in County Leitrim.
This publication is kindly supported by Arts Council Ireland’s Agility Award for literature.
With gratitude to Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, Belfast Exposed Gallery, and Galway City Council.
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