These are among the photographs that Luis Alberto Rodriguez, a Dominican-American artist now based in Berlin, created last year during a residency at Cow House Studios, in Co Wexford. Sometimes, when you freeze the video, the hurling was like a loving relationship, other times it was a total war. © Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose JointsThe body’s interaction with its surroundings was also key to the way Rodriguez collaborated with Wexford communities to look at the relationships between individuals, landscapes, traditions and the land in rural Ireland. For some of the photographs he moved the exaggerated glamour of Irish dancers from ballrooms into fields. People of the Mud, by Luis Alberto Rodriguez, is published by Loose JointsAll photographs © Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints© Luis Alberto Rodriguez 2020, courtesy of Loose Joints

Source: The Irish Times June 15, 2020 04:52 UTC