At 20:00 on the night of the opening of 'Riddle of the Burial Grounds', Sam Keogh will give a performance in his installation ‘Four Fold’.

The Old Croghan Man, whose image is the centrepiece of Sam Keogh’s installation and performance, is thought to be more than 2,000 years old. He is one of the well-preserved bog bodies that have been found across Northern Europe. Keogh’s feelings of disturbance surrounding the display of ancient bodies originated on a visit to the British Museum, where a CT scan of an Egyptian body provided image data for a very detailed digital reconstruction: projected on a large screen, the public were invited to dig ever deeper into its remains. Keogh’s ‘Four Fold’ – a photograph of the flattened figure reproduced at a large scale on Extra City’s floor – is charged by a nub that he considers a problem — that the representation of a thing can be more effective than the thing itself. Exploring this, he takes us through a jumbled set of memories and mind maps: images stuck to the flaps of bog body skin that he peers beneath, both metaphorically and literally.

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