Willie Doherty “The Amnesiac and Other Recent Videos and Photographic Works”
Alexander and Bonin
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The Amnesiac, 2014, Doherty’s most recent video work, is a 10 minute single-channel video installation which extends his interest in themes of landscape and memory. The video follows an unidentified man as he drives along a country road. His journey is interrupted by what might be a momentary lapse in concentration from the tedium of driving, a daydream or a rupture in the fabric of the everyday. He returns to somewhere half remembered or half forgotten; a reminder that traces of past events, whether or not visible, remain embedded with in the landscape. The video is accompanied by a group of 10 photographs, titled Damage, 2014, which were made at the same location where the video was shot. The photographs are details of tree trunks that bear the physical markings of past acts of violence. Doherty explores the boundaries between the visible and invisible, past and present, the tangible and intangible.
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Schedule
from October 25, 2014 to December 06, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-25 from 18:00 to 20:00