DUBLIN, IRELAND.-The Gallery of Photography presents Eyes of Others -
Lindsay Seers, on view through November 27th 2005. In partnership with the British Council, Gallery of Photography presents Eyes of Others, an exhibition of new work by London based artist Lindsay Seers. Using her own body as a camera, the artist performs and makes images. Locating the photographic process inside her body to become an image receptor ­ her mouth cavity is the camera body and her lips the shutter and aperture. Her work falls into three phases, her life as a camera, her encounter with ventriloquism and her new life as a projector. This body of work interweaves elements of photographic theory, philosophy and recent scientific research, mapping them onto actions and processes that define her life story; through this she creates a unique approach to photography and projection.

Seers' work has consistently posed the question as to the relationship between the products of the lens and their ability to convey something essential about our actual lived experience. Her practice is process driven, generating structured practices from which to operate so as to extend her existential investigations. This may involve making sculptures, props, paintings, drawings, actions, writings, films and photographs ­ all of these activities and experiences are then contained within an overall narrative structure which provides a holding 'meta narrative' framing her entire output. This narrative continuously evolves, reinterpreting both the past production and the future actions/paths to be taken.

For this show the artist has created a series of works which explore the three main phases of her autobiographical process These are represented in a DVD work, a book work, a series of 'mouth photographs', a sculpture and performances in which she tells an autobiographical story. The DVD acts like a documentary film featuring a number of experts elucidating the theories and impulses behind the artist's processes and their results. It draws its inspiration from biographies made about artists for TV/cinema. Public galleries often use documentary films as an integral part of their presentation of an artist ­ these position and prepare the audience for the interpretation of art works. Seers has taken these secondary, formative and supposed background interventions as the work itself. The sculptural work has evolved from Seers preoccupation with ventriloquism - it is an alter ego that also has also transformed into a camera, a two-headed dummy that suddenly looks back at the viewer and photographs them when they are least expecting it.

Lindsay Seers took part in the Artist's Work Programme at IMMA in 1997. She has exhibited extensively in the UK and Europe. Her solo exhibition 'I saw the Light' work is currently on show at the Gasworks Gallery, London as part of Smart Projects exhibition, Adam in Amsterdam.