In his Irradiations series as in his earlier works, Denis Farley partakes in an ongoing investigation of the nature of photography as a self-conscious gesture. In a string of works produced following a site-specific group exhibition in the Canadian government's once top-secret underground bunker, and now a decommissioned relic of the Cold War, Farley demonstrates his dual strategy of fra ming spaces in which he appears inside the view, so that each image encapsulates the observer and the observed.
L'auteure traite de l'étude que mène Farley sur la photographie en tant que geste conscient. Elle s'intéresse en particulier aux ouvres produites à la suite d'une exposition collective s'étant déroulée sur le site d'une relique de la Guerre froide, et elle explore une double stratégie propre à cet artiste qui cadre des espaces dans lesquels il apparaît, de sorte que chacune des images se trouve à contenir le regardeur et le regardé.
Denis Farley lives and works in Montreal. His work has been shown in Canada, Europe, and the United States, and is included in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, the Musée de Charleroi in Brussels, the Musée du Québec in Quebec City, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.