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Willie Doherty
Unseen

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 20 September 2013 - 14 January 2014

Willie Doherty: Unseen

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands

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Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014

Since 1985 Doherty has recorded the way in which the city has been shaped and altered in response to unfolding political events as he explored its streets through the simple acts of walking and looking. The title of the exhibition, UNSEEN, refers to Doherty’s self-conscious method of using the camera in a context where it was imperative for him to avoid undue attention and to minimize the risk of being mistaken for a photojournalist or a tourist. 

The exhibition reveals how Doherty has used the techniques of photojournalism, documentary landscape photography and the appropriation of images and texts to create a body of photographic work that explores the fine line between fiction and non-fiction.

 

UNSEEN will present approximately twenty photographic and four video works from throughout Doherty’s career and will examine how the artist evolved the use of image and text in his early black and white works (1985-92) to engage with the complexities of representing a contested landscape.
 
A number of works from Lapse, a series of black and white photographs made in the 1980s and early 1990s will be shown for the first time; Doherty here investigating how these neglected or 'lost' images shift between the present (and our knowledge and understanding of) the past.
Doherty’s large colour cibachromes (1993-99), exploit the heightened colour of this particular photographic process to create a body of work that plays with the promise of narrative potential, as the images oscillate unsteadily between the staged and the found, the before and after.
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  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
  • Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
Installation view, Willie Doherty: Unseen, De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands, 2014
Publications
  • Willie Doherty

    Willie Doherty

    Unseen, 2013 Text by: Robin Klassnik

    Essays by: Jean Fisher, Susan MacKay and Colm Tóibín

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