Chain Gang - 2016
Opera de quatre sous - 2010 Nuit Blanche
Nothing stops a new-yorker - 2005
La Gégène - 2007
Surround - 2015 - Centre Pompidou
CrackHouse 2009
Nature Morte 1996 - 2011
Strange Fruits - 2010 - jardin des plantes Paris
“Power and the poetry of money, the increasingly narrower latitude available for political action, the role of the self-generating war, the iciness of society, the execution of nature – these are the themes to which Malachi Farrell draws our eye, as well as to a bunch of cables, hoses, aluminum sheets, contraptions, and electronic parts everywhere, to which movement and sound are added. The result is loud and wild. The machinery is visible; it is meant to be visible. The artist reveals to us what holds the world together at its core, but he does so very much from the perspective of a rapper version of a French artist-intellectual who has declared his support for the principle of political responsibility to society. What is commonly called an “installation” in an artistic context here turns into the dramatization of a politically engaged Gesamtkunstwerk (synthesis of the arts) with a tendency to become a world machine, an artistic firework that does not shy away from a symbolic and mechanical explanation of the world. In truth, it is no longer an exhibition. What we see is a theater for robots, machines, automated puppets, and everyday objects set in motion, driven by pneumatic compressors, hydraulics, motors, and dancing mechanics. “Can’t you do anything domestic?” is not infrequently the reaction of collectors and curators, who like to instrumentalize artists as remote-control interior decorators or theory designers."
Nothing Domestic: Laughter and Horror by Martin Schick
Excerpt from the Foreward for the exhibition catalogue: "Malachi Farrell Manipulation"
Galerie Stadt Backnang, REVOLVER, Germany, 2002.
No Money No Honey - 2011
Paparazzi - 1999 - 2000
Breaking Point - 2010
Pow - 1999
No Return - 2015
To early for vacation - Ireland - 2008
Fish Flag Mourant 1998
Atomic House - 2016
What's next Part One - 2003
Hooliganisme - 1997
Rom & Dub - 2011
The Sandy Effect - 2013
Nothing Domestic - 2003
The shops are Closed - 1994
O'Black - 2004
Praxi - 2011
Hang On - 2009
Wood - 1997
Malachi Farrell’ deals with major political and social issues, past and present, in a narrative mode.
He combines craft and ingenious technology to achieve a Gesamkunstwerk (synthesis of arts) through the use of sound, light, machines, everyday materials and articulated objects.
Crucial to the understanding : Farrell’s work is that his sculptures are not fixed objects, but spectacular, overwhelming, grotesque.
Bubbles - 1993
Le village - 1997
Cash - 2002
Farrell Family - 2010
Gaz Killer - 2009
Bisous - 1998
Baby soldier - 2014
Tank
Recruting Station -
KM4 Grand Paris Express - 2018
Hooror Hits - 2019
Covidlespoches - 2020
Bubbles
Funky Potatoes - 1996
Dog Dealer - 2016
Farrell Family - 2010
Gaz Killer - 2009
Fin de siecle - 1996
Nothing Domestic (Gun market) - 2003
Tank
Doctor Strange - 2017
Vus comme des monstres - 2019
Human clock - 2019
The 1 last show - 2020