Rainbow Narcosis

2012. video (color, sound), media player, screen or projector, 9 min loop. Music by Evan Samek.
Rainbow Narcosis follows a headless lamb through a series of otherworldly environments. With a visual style that shifts between photo-realism and video games, the work highlights the increasing disconnect between whats real and whats mediated. From the Palais Garnier to an art-filled modernist loft, the subject matter references wealth and power, while maintaining an unsettling ambiguity.
video installation in gallery showing still from Monaghan's video installation showing snow and night sky.

installation view from The Real Thing, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung City, Taiwan, 2015

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