Willie Doherty, False Memory, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, (31 October 2002–2 March 2003).
A major mid-career retrospective of the work of the internationally-acclaimed, Derry-born artist Willie Doherty opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art on Thursday 31 October 2002. Willie Doherty: False Memory is the first substantial showing of Doherty’s work in Ireland and one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of his work anywhere to date.
The exhibition, which comprises more than 40 photographic works and slide/tape and video installations, explores themes of memory and place—concerns which have preoccupied the artist throughout his career. Closely keyed to his native city of Derry and the Northern Ireland 'Troubles', Doherty’s work reveals a complex and shifting range of relationships between places, events and the images by which they come to be represented and recalled.