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"'The Time of Dreaming the World Awake' is a portrait of a place, a landscape of possibility.
This photographic body of work is based in a small region in Southern France. It centres on the story of Bugarach, the ‘magic’ mountain. Bugarach was somehow connected to a Mayan prophecy which indicated that the world as we know it, would end on December 21st, 2012. The prophecy claimed that this date would mark the beginning of a new era for humanity, a new and sublime future. Bugarach was to be the first bastion of this modern Arcadia.
Nothing happened last December, which was to be expected. Despite this, I realised how attractive it was to believe in the possibility of an idyll, even if it only existed in my mind." (© Yvette MONAHAN)
About the photographer, Yvette MONAHAN:
Yvette MONAHAN a Dublin based Photographer who works with myth and landscape. She's interested in how a particular landscape can hold stories of what’s been and what could be.
She completed an MFA at the University of Ulster under Paul SEAWRIGHT and Donovan WYLIE.
'The Time of Dreaming the World Awake' win the Portfolio Award at PhotoIreland, 2013 for this body of work."
"'The Time of Dreaming the World Awake' is a portrait of a place, a landscape of possibility.
This photographic body of work is based in a small region in Southern France. It centres on the story of Bugarach, the ‘magic’ mountain. Bugarach was somehow connected to a Mayan prophecy which indicated that the world as we know it, would end on December 21st, 2012. The prophecy claimed that this date would mark the beginning of a new era for humanity, a new and sublime future. Bugarach was to be the first bastion of this modern Arcadia.
Nothing happened last December, which was to be expected. Despite this, I realised how attractive it was to believe in the possibility of an idyll, even if it only existed in my mind." (© Yvette MONAHAN)
About the photographer, Yvette MONAHAN:
Yvette MONAHAN a Dublin based Photographer who works with myth and landscape. She's interested in how a particular landscape can hold stories of what’s been and what could be.
She completed an MFA at the University of Ulster under Paul SEAWRIGHT and Donovan WYLIE.
'The Time of Dreaming the World Awake' win the Portfolio Award at PhotoIreland, 2013 for this body of work."
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- HC, 29,5 x 23 cm., 48 pp., text language: English, Ltd to 500 copies