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Rubicon Gallery, 10 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin Tues-Sat Noon-6pm Feb 25-Mar 28 01-6708055

Martin Healy has long been fascinated by phenomena occupying the twilight zone between reality and myth, evidence and faith, the rational and the irrational. His interest has resulted in a body of imaginatively conceived, richly atmospheric work that draws us right into the domain of the Jersey Devil, to Amityville’s haunted house and stories of encounters with UFOs. He has employed photography and video to great effect and his latest project,

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, is a video installation that plunges us into lush, tropical vegetation.

A narrator relays a tale of Edenregained and held in a pattern of endless repetition. One thinks of the television series Lost, and it could well be that Lost, like Last Year at Marienbadand Groundhog Day, derives in part from the same source as Healy's work, Adolfo Bioy Casares's short novel The Invention of Morel, in which life and death are treated in terms of a cinematic metaphor. Facsimile, like all of Healy's work, is concisely, tightly structured - and surprising.

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