New Art Projects is delighted to present Me and You in The Continuum (Now: Zero), a two-person show by Irish artists Brian Teeling and Dorje de Burgh. Their practices are rooted primarily in photography but they also work in mixed-media, film, and installation. This exhibition utilises a narrative literary device both embedded and found in modern fiction, specifically, Philip K. Dick’s ‘The Man in The High Castle’ as a source of intrigue and inspiration.
This double narrative device of a book-within-a-book raises questions about the nature of truth and reality while suggesting that fiction can reveal historical truths more effectively than factual accounts. Identifying this structure within the context of a two-person exhibition underlined by dual method of shown in pairs, the work will interweave reality and fiction in film stills, analogue photographs, texts, framed works, and a new single screen short film. Work will be presented in pairs, highlighting the tension and communion between the two artists’ works and the places that they both meet and diverge presenting clashing realities.
Private view: Thursday, 29th May – 6-9pm
30 May – 12 July 2025
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Dorje de Burgh (b. Dublin, 1984) lives and works between Dublin and Berlin.
His practice uses photography, the archive, language, and film to explore libidinal excess within structures of power and the paradoxes of (image) desire in an increasingly fractured present.
His work is held in numerous private collections and has recently been acquired by The Arts Council of Ireland, PhotoIreland and Photo Museum Ireland for their respective public collections.
Brian Teeling (b. Dublin, 1987) is an Irish multi-disciplinary artist living and working between Dublin and London. His practice is rooted in photography but distils ideas and themes into print, text, sculpture, and installation. His key concerns are queer-working-class identity, activism and archiving within the LGBTQ+ community, constructs of masculinity and how they intersect with sexuality, and cognitive psychology, with a particular focus on automotive psychology.
His work is held in the Irish State Art Collection, Arts Council Ireland, National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art (IMMA), Bill Arning GAY art collection, David Kronn collection and private collections in Ireland, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Colombia and The United States.