Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
Now is the Time is a document of protest, repression, censorship, and state control.
It is also concerned with the positionality of the photographic gaze amid complex networks of digitised self-, citizen- and state-surveillance, exploring the multiple tensions between indifference, engagement, power, and performativity within the contemporary spectacle.
The protesters’ identities are concealed both out of respect for the physical and legal risks they are taking by occupying public space and as a formal reflection of a political landscape in which peaceful protest, free assembly, and critical speech are increasingly criminalised.
Dorje de Burgh
Dorje de Burgh’s practice uses photography, the archive, language, and film to explore libidinal excess within structures of power and the paradoxes of (image) desire in an increasingly fractured present.
Following nomination as a member of the FUTURES Creative Europe programme, Dorje received the Arts Council of Ireland Next Generation Award 2020 and The Darkroom moving image residency 2020/21, producing his second solo exhibition, How To Kill Something That Doesn’t Exist, in association with PhotoIreland Festival 2021. What Are The Roots That Clutch, his first artist’s monograph, was published by PhotoIreland in January 2022
Dorje’s two most recent works—Under the Same Sky and Boring Photographs—resulted in his third solo exhibition at South Tipperary Arts Centre, a two-person site-specific show and publication launch in Berlin in collaboration with Chris Dreier of the Office of Joint Administrative Intelligence, and the historical photographic survey ‘FOTO-KUNST-FOTO’ at the Clemens-Sels-Museums, Düsseldorf.
His work is held in numerous private collections and has recently been acquired by The Arts Council of Ireland, PhotoIreland, and others for their respective public collections.
Dorje de Burgh, Now is the Time
New Irish Works series 2025–27
Launch 6pm Thu 14 May 2026
Running 15 May–9 August 2026
At the International Centre for the Image
