SILENCE / ENCLAVE at TRAUMA at Science Gallery Dublin

SILENCE / ENCLAVE - WILLE DOHERTY (UK)

Willie Doherty’s SILENCE, After a Kneecapping and ENCLAVE, Dividing Wall were originally taken in the 1980s, but were not exhibited by the artist until 2012, after the artist returned to a number of undeveloped negatives in his archive. The photographs are both black and white fibre photographs mounted on aluminium. Alongside a number of other previously unseen images taken between 1985 and 1993, the works were shown in an exhibition at Kerlin Gallery in 2012 titled Lapse. The works in this series, including these two, tend to capture ghostly terrains in and around Willie’s native Derry. Roads, car parks and passageways take on a sense of foreboding — largely devoid of people and activity, they are sometimes the sites of horrific instances of sectarian violence, but appear eerily quiet in these images.

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TRAUMA: BUILT TO BREAK is a free exhibition at the boundary of rupture and recovery.

Would you choose to erase a traumatic memory? Why are some people more resilient to trauma than others? How do we live with and recover from trauma? And how do we experience other people’s trauma?

TRAUMA investigates biological, psychological, societal, and cultural traumas in our contemporary, connected world — from the emotional, neurological and mental aspects of trauma to the brutish, the blunt-force, the fractured and the stitched. Exploring our collective resilience in the face of trauma, exhibits consider our ability to heal and the importance of communication and human connections to that process.

TRAUMA runs 20.11.15 – 21.02.16 at Science Gallery at Trinity College.