Willie Doherty
dal 24/10/2001 al 8/12/2001
Segnalato da
24/10/2001
Willie Doherty
Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
The source and inspiration of much of Doherty?s work has always been history and place in his native Northern Ireland. Across the water the universal themes and issues, which many of his works address, have an additional poignancy at this time.Ormeau Baths Gallery has commissioned Willie Doherty to produce eight new photographic works as well as a new commission, Double Take, from which the exhibition takes its title..
Willie Doherty?s photographs were first exhibited in the early eighties. Since
that time his practice has changed and developed to encompass video. The source
and inspiration of much of Doherty?s work has always been history and place in
his native Northern Ireland. Across the water the universal themes and issues,
which many of his works address, have an additional poignancy at this time.
During the past decade Doherty?s art has been shown throughout the world. This
exhibition is timely because it gives us the opportunity to reassess the
substantial body of Doherty?s work. His understanding of the political and
psychological uses of the tools of documentary reportage imbues the works with
enormous potency.
Ormeau Baths Gallery has commissioned Willie Doherty to produce eight new
photographic works as well as a new commission, Double Take, from which the
exhibition takes its title.
Doherty?s earliest black and white images with text are interspersed amongst the large-scale vibrant cibachromes of the 1990s
chronicling specific moments and incidents; a panoramic view of Derry, a detail
of tyre marks. The images contain a particular and quite peculiar sense of time
- neither fast nor slow.
In the video works, this sense of time is heightened.
Rather like the structural devices of which crime thrillers make use and from
which Doherty borrows, the pace quickens then slows down.
The commission 'Double Take' marks an exciting new departure in Doherty?s work. A
retrospective character is suggested by the use of images, which have been seen
in previous works.
The specially commissioned video 'Double Take' will show
footage of two actors, each describing or recollecting a fictitious incident in
which they have bboth been invloved, as well as showing a staged re-construction
of that event. Multiple versions of the same story are told from the
perspective of the victim, the perpetrator, a number of eyewitnesses, casual
passer-by, reporters, television viewers, those who know of the incident through
hearsay and those who imagine they were there.
This exhibition at Ormeau Baths Gallery will be Doherty?s first in Belfast for
over 12 years.
Hours: Tuesdays - Saturdays, 10am - 6pm
Contact Name: Katherine Thompson, Gallery Administrator
Tel: (028) 90 321402
Fax: (028) 90312232
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Ormeau Baths Gallery
18a Ormeau Avenue BT2 8HS
Belfast - Eire