Orla Barry

Orla Barry

CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE

According to the catalogue accompanying the show (now at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin), Orla Barry's Portable Stones, 1005, indicates "the limits that apply to putting any flow of ideas into words. The impossibility of language and communication plays an important part in the film. Language as an obstacle that creates distance and can result in loneliness." The inherent contradiction in such assertions of language's inadequacy is that they are themselves made with language. Language can't accomplish its own disappearance, but it can eloquently gesture toward the inner wordlessness-the numbing loss of interior dialogue-that …