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(2010, Photographic transparencies in light boxes (14 prints), each transparency 21×29.7cm)
From Compression Catalogue:
“In this series of fourteen photographs Catherine Harty gives visibility to the unspoken yet unmistakable hostility that greets potential tenants of ‘low-cost’ rental accommodation in Cork City. The images were made using a basic digital camera to photograph a computer screen displaying a series of dismal pictures downloaded from a well-known Irish property website. It is not just that these low-end flats and bedsits are unappealing; it is the frank declaration of zero effort that has been taken to render them even minimally attractive. Their casual and blatant ugliness speak of a complete disregard for the aspirations and subjective life of the potential tenant. The digital camera used was rudimentary and its auto-focus produces images that are rough and degraded: the callousness of their content is therefore matched by an uneven pixellation and offhand focus. It is as if the camera shares in a stung incomprehension as it strains to understand the miserable images before it.” (Ed Krcma 2015, from the catalogue to the exhibition Compression 2015 at the Ormston House, Limerick City, curated by Ed Krcma)
Review of the work at Tom Barry’s, Cork City featured in Enclave Review 01
