In his compelling new series, now showing at Dublin's Kerlin Gallery, acclaimed artist Willie Doherty's starkly atmospheric images reveal the residual traces that mark the surfaces and fabric of natural and built environments. Enjoy a gallery of images from Is And Is Not above.
Is And Is Not captures places that have been formed by the long slow processes of geological time and shaped by the consequences of human intervention: conflict, inequality, neglect, and injustice.
These are works that are characterized by Doherty’s watchful reticent intensity, and by his assertion that the image cannot be fixed, cannot be fully comprehended and known.
The passage of time, and the eventual erasure of all traces, pervades these images through the uneasy quiescence between what was and what is, what is and is not.
In Doherty’s work, the sublime is determinate, the ignored no longer unseen.
Is And Is Not at the Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, until November 19th - find out more here.
