On July 7, Art Sonje Center presents a Screening & Artist Talk to accompany the solo exhibition of Willie Doherty, 2017 Art Sonje Project #3: Willie Doherty – Remains.

Programme Schedule
15:30 – 16:30 Video Screening
Ghost Story, 2007, 15 min.
Buried, 2009, 8 min.
The Amnesiac, 2014, 10 min.
Secretion, 2013, 20 min.

16:30 – 17:30 Artist Talk

17:30 – 18:00 Q&A

About the Artist
Willie Doherty (b. 1959 Derry) is a native of Derry, Northern Ireland. Basing much of his work around Derry he uses photography, video and sound installations to explore the fallibility of human memory and recollection. Doherty studied at the University of Ulster, Belfast, and began exhibiting internationally in the early 1980s. Nominated twice for the Turner Prize, in 1994 and 2003, his work has been the subject of many solo museum shows. Doherty represented Northern Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2007.  His work has been presented in prestigious international group exhibitions, including dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany, 2012; Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain, 2010; 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2005; 8th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 2003; 25th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002; and Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA,1999.