Misdemeanours And Regurgitations

Mona Casey’s work plays with ideas of the reproduction and disposability of art-works through photography, television, and the media.

Misdemeanours and regurgitations is a salon-style installation and developing collection of digitally manipulated images of pre 20th Century paintings. Casey works with famous and iconic paintings in art history, such as Casper David Friedrich’s Traveller looking over a sea of fog and David’s The Death of Marat. In Casey’s version of Traveller…, she has digitally erased the figure, revealling the view, previously obscured, the mountains and fog beyond. Through manipulation and re-presentation, Casey questions the critical moment or event that makes a painting ‘great’. The work also engages with the painted image as stage, in which models, the subject, or ‘players’ to use a Shakesperean metaphor play and reside.

However, despite the mechanical manipulation of images, there is an investigation of the use of the human touch through re-painting or re-drawing through digital means.