121 x 182 cm
“I focused on how the political and physical merged” analyzes Willie Doherty. Out of the Shadows II plunges us into a dark night lit by a few street lights in a deserted street where a car is parked in the Irish city of Derry. What is at stake is yet to be unearthed. The context of this picture is not revealed immediately. The pre-text or the information and interpretations made ??by the spectator puts the image in the “troubled” political context of Northern Ireland (a car bomb?) led by the sectarian resentment between communities (the wall evokes a zone of non-visibility). In contrast to the iconography of terrorism in the media, Doherty does not capture the moment of violence itself, but rather an “anti-headline,” the location of a possible confrontation, past or future. Thus, “Out of the Shadows II” substitutes the narrative of the event with a political image, embracing the event’s description with the aesthetics of the urban landscape.
Much of the work of Willie Doherty – as pointed out in his 2007 retrospective at the Kunstverein Hamburg and Munich Lenbachhaus – is built around Derry City in Northern Ireland, the birthplace of the Irish artist. His photographs, stories, videos, and installations are driven by the internecine war and political-religious agitation in Northern Ireland between the nationalist community predominantly Catholic and the unionist Protestant majority that has occurred since the late 60’s. The city and public space are the scene of civil conflicts. In the video “Three Potential Endings” (2008) political space is allegorized in the architecture. The work of Doherty transforms these “non-places” into sets. In “Grey Day IX” (2007), the idea of ??borders, understood as a separation is less cernable and more diffuse. Daily and anonymous violence in an intolerant public space is denounced. His images raise the question of the representation of political confrontation, through the use of codes in art and cinema, and by means of image and text. Tension, oppression, uncertainty, and fear are like a sub-representation without specific references in the picture. Willie Doherty was born in 1959 in Derry, Ireland where he lives and works today.
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