Gallery Eleven: Screening Room
Following on from the screening of Michael Hamburger by Tacita Dean, the Galley continues to showcase recent acquisitions in film and time based media. First exhibited at the Douglas Hyde Gallery in 2008, The Visitor was shot on location in Belfast in early 2008 and revisits some of Doherty’s recurrent themes and preoccupations with place, landscape and memory. In this piece the camera moves between the trees of a small forest and scrutinises the surfaces of a block of flats. The Visitor features an enigmatic figure whose intentions and origins are unclear.
In addition a voiceover speculates about the role and nature of the unnamed visitor. ‘The Visitor’ by Willie Doherty was acquired by Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane in 2010. At the Border II (Low Visibilty) by Willie Doherty also part of the Hugh Lane’s permanent collection is on view in Gallery 12.
