My work deals with the construction of masculine subjectivities through space and storytelling. I use a wide range of materials - often returning to drawing, furniture, and improvised forms of puppetry - to investigate the physical and narrative orthopedics that constitute the desiring, powerful, ridiculous, rational, and violent embodied male subject of patriarchy. The audience sees these male figures through the prisms of architecture, national identity, love songs, museums, speeches and other constructions.
Stuck, an inheritance (installation shot) - Installation shot of a solo exhibition in Video, Rotterdam, 2024, showing, L-R:
1989-2001, 2004-2024; old shirt, stretcher, charcoal, paper.
Haunted Window; plywood, acrylic paint, primed paper, old shirt, bricks.
Installation shot “Coordinatie Centrum Charlois” - (2022) installation shot of the solo exhibition "Coordination Centrum Charlois" at an other world project space, Rotterdam, December 2021
Is Registration Possible? - (2022) video game, available at https://daniel-tuomey.itch.io/is-registration-possible Installation shot from the solo exhibition "Coordination Centrum Charlois" in an other world project space, Rotterdam, December 2022.
‘The Watcher’, installation shot - (2021) - A sculpture installed alongside the film 'Frankenstein'. Since corona regulations meant many people watched the work alone, I wanted this semi-figurative furniture sculpture to provide a sense of another presence: a slightly intimidating, clinical, co-watching assemblage.
FRANKENSTEIN - (2021) A frame-by-frame animation made at home during the 2020 coronavirus lockdowns, departing from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel. The work was shown in a two part IRL/online exhibition in April-May 2021, first screened for a month in Available & The Rat, Rotterdam, then hosted online for a further month at wetfilm.org.
How To Win - (2021)
A text and image work that appropriates the form of a board game to serve as the score for many possible performances about the collective construction of narrative. The work was printed on a sculptural furniture platform made by the collective Forerunner, and exhibited as part of the exhibition 'YOUNGFOSSIL' in the meadow of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, July - October 2021. Forerunner, YOUNGFOSSIL, 2021. Seating Structures - wood, steel, sawdust, dragon's blood, resin, paper, fabric. Commissioned by IMMA for IMMA Outdoors 2021. Supported by Public Service Innovation Fund. Presented with the kind support of OPW. Photography Ros Kavanagh.
A Guide to the Collection - 2019
a dialogue with my point-four child - 2019
Study for a dialogue with my point-four child - 2019
