Saturation: Four photographers on their work in the Crawford's major new exhibition
A detail from Hi Vis 29, by Dragana Jurisic, part of Saturation at the Crawford.
The artist Paul Cezanne once observed that “we live in a rainbow of chaos.” The expression could very easily have inspired Saturation: The Everyday Transformed, the new exhibition of photography at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork.
Where the Crawford’s previous exhibition, Rembrandt in Print, was a sombre homage to the power of black ink, Saturation revels in its polychromatic joie de vivre; of the thirteen young photographers featured, a few may exercise restraint in their use of colour, but most tend towards extravagance. Their efforts are augmented by the redecoration (courtesy of Pat McDonnell Paints) of the gallery in what is surely the brightest range of hues it’s ever known.
