soundbites





"O'Grady's fascination is with 'hybrid' culture. In her images she seeks to establish the very connections between what society chooses to call opposites.... this concentration on ties rather than rifts is the core of her radicalism and gives her work its distinctly shaded character."

Patricia Rosoff



"O'Grady's project is one of unearthing the repressed, bringing forward the submerged, connecting what has been falsely separated...."

Laura Cottingham



"The diptych form itself creates difference, oscillation, uncertainty. When the diptych is not only doubled, but internally layered, the uncertainties lead in every direction. What is the surface and what is the substance? Where is the real thing? Whose side are we on? Whose word should we take? Has Duval been reinstated in history or is her erasure by Baudelaire only made more evident?

"By the questions she poses and the answers she refuses to give, O'Grady... posits no single entry into her work, and designates no single exit from it. Her work provides a place of multiple possibilities where you and I, from wherever we come, can alter our trajectories."

Anne Higonnet
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