For the 2008 Dublin Art Fair, Oisin Byrne was awarded one of four Project Platform spaces at the centre of the fair. This page shows some preliminary images of this show. The origami sculptural pieces are starmaps which fold in and around themselves infinitely, expressing the idea of a dimensional universe: of a universe which constantly folds in on itself to reveal a new reality.  The piece entitled “The Universe in a Cardboard Box”, a maquette for a larger piece, contains an accurate gnomonic projection of the entire celestial sphere into a cube. This piece has been made in collaboration with Professor Richard Gott of Princeton University. Aswell as referencing ancient Korean cubic star maps, the cubic shape also represents the limitations of any conceptual understanding or framework in which we attempt to contain the boundless and expanding universe. This is also a mundane object transformed and transfigured: it is the vision of the infinite within the mundane, the celestial within the terrestrial. We recall such vision in children, who transform the most utilitarian object – a cardboard box - into a space of pure potentiality.  The photograph work again looks at the idea of the infinite inside of the infinitesimal. A group of freckles on the bodies of two lovers map out star constellations visible from earth. This map of the stars has been etched onto their skin in melanin by the sun, our closest star.  The drawings of glamourous older women, are completed from photographs on the street in Paris, and then Dublin. Amongst the catches, and by chance, these include one of Salvador Dali's models, and Andy Warhol's art dealer. They are drawn in white: in light rather than in shadow: emergent. They are bodily and strongly so: glowing in their aliveness. They are sexuality extending beyond our contrived social limits. They point towards an alternative and reversed paradigm of the aging process, where, as time passes, the body fills and fills with life, this energy finally becoming so huge, that, like a supernova it must leave the small body and take more subtle and luminous form. 
project platform
space: oisin byrne
folding and unfolding star space
origami and video pieces
floor drawing in flour
space: oisin byrne
glamour grannies: detail
madame rosine favey, paris.
space: oisin byrne
detail of photo: celestial bodies
space: oisin byrne
we are stardust, lightbox.
space: oisin byrne