Willie Doherty, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 19 May – 2 September 2007; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, 29 September 2007 – 6 January 2008
Willie Doherty (*1959 in Derry) works with photography, video, and sound installations. Many of his narratives question the capacity of certain aspects of visual representation to convey the truth, a quality supposedly possessed by contemporary media. Doherty’s works occupy the narrow void between documentary and staged compositions, reflecting a world that is shaped by television news, the fantasies spun in movies, tourist-oriented information, popular stereotypes, and collective memory. The heated conflict in Ireland also repeatedly appears as a subtext throughout Doherty’s oeuvre.
Ed. Matthias Mühling, Yilmaz Dziewior, text(s) by Matthias Mühling, Yilmaz Dziewior, Francis McKee
Language: English
ISBN- ISBN: 978-3-7757-1929-2
Binding:softcover
Pages: 172 pp
Dimentions: 21.30 x 28.00 cm
