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Roisin Byrne works the position of the artist to permeate the territories of Art and its properties examining Art and its relationships to forms of desire in a society of immaterial labour and luxury goods. Beyond the dry irony of appropriation, and the poetics of post-conceptualism, she humorously and yet aggressively challenges the boundaries of how an artist is allowed to behave. Prodding and provoking to unravel the accepted rules that structure art and its associations with culture, freedom and independence, her work depicts the shift in art practice in which ideas become common property which can be invoked, adapted and absorbed.