Research Catalogue

Drawing on both photographic and cinematic philosophies of time, Nora Duggan’s art practice-based research explores the expanded potentials of contemporary lens-based imagery as media for temporal inquiry. Her images frequently comprise a series of layers in various degrees of transparency, a process more aligned to collage or composition rather than montage. By integrating opposing, yet interacting, temporal rhythms, the images take advantage of the somewhat indeterminate territory that lies between stillness and movement to imply similar fluid relations at play between the present, past and potential futures. As such, her work questions the validity of such clearly defined categories in relation to the construction of history, memory and time.