Gerard Byrne New Sexual Lifestyles 2003 Courtesy The Artist and Green on Red Gallery, Dublin enlarge

Building upon previous works such as New Sexual Lifestyles that used a roundtable discussion from a 1973 Playboy magazine as the script for a staged debate, Gerard Byrne will present a newly commissioned work with actors. The new work references specific scenarios from popular films as well as Bertolt Brecht's acting exercises and uses the milieu of Tate Britain as a backdrop.

Byrne's work tests different representational modes against each other. He juxtaposes the 'factual' qualities of photography against the willing suspension of disbelief at stake in theatre.

Biography

Born in 1969 in Dublin
1999 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
1997–1998 PS1 Contemporary Art Centre Program, New York
1996 New School for Social Research, New York
1991 National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Selected Solo Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions

Lives and works in Dublin

See also:
Live works: Gerard Byrne