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Heaven Is Under Construction

Now in its final week, the PhotoIreland team can sleep soundly in the knowledge that they did justice to all the big deal issues of the day, paid homage to a vast spectrum of emotion and provided a worthy stage for photographers great and small. If it was all a bit over-whelming, this month long visual assault of politics and poetry, out of the peripheries of the festival in the newly opened Severed Head Gallery lies the most levelling of shows by German photographer Mirjam Siefert. An ode to tiny detail, to the ordinary fabric of everyday life and to the splendid minutiae captured in a run-of-the-mill blink is the focus of Siefert’s gaze. Wonders from the corner of her eye and precious, mundane moments with people around her; in glances and in snippets, maybe the nicest way to say goodbye to the festival. / Jeanette Farrell