A false wall and a red velvet curtain currently fill the glass front of the Temple Bar Gallery, turning the interior into a gloomy, sepulchral space. Instead of religious statuary, however, small photographic images of the artists - Gudok and her partner, David Farrell - having sex have been installed.
To avoid the messy issue of gaze the couple have passed a camera back and forward between them, taking snaps. The shaky images totter relentlessly on the point of abstraction as limbs and hair intertwine.
This approach originated on the American underground film scene in the 1970s. Gudok and Farrell's addition of some Boltaskian punctuation and an attempt to link the body and landscape - sky above and bodies below! - fails to give any extra energy to the concept.
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