Joly Dots and Don’ts

It has already become a festival tradition that one artist was chosen as the Grand Prix winner. Alan Phelan convinced the jury with »Joly Dots and Don’ts« and received the highest number of points. His project, which can also be seen on the cover of this catalog, will have its own exhibition in our gallery.

The color line screen process developed by the Irish physicist John Joly in 1895 serves as the raw material for Phelan’s work. He takes up an almost forgotten method of color photography and uses it to convey a subversive perspective: his own queerness, intertwined with the supposed queerness of the inventor of the process. It is a playful method based on the use of the line screen technique. He tells a story that this medium has never told before. Phelan specifically addresses the role of outsiders in this context.