Jill Mulleady’s practice shifts between close observations of everyday reality and highly elaborated imaginary worlds. In her work, references to historical painting are put into communication with images taken from both popular culture and personal life, creating a strange feeling of merged, multiplied temporalities. For this exhibition, Mulleady takes the structure of Edvard Munch’s Frieze of Life as a starting point for two distinct series of new paintings, one in the Arsenale and one in the Central Pavilion. Certain elements appear in both installations, as if to suggest a sort of quantum entanglement linking these alternate realities.
