Press
release Willie Doherty was born in 1959 in Derry (N. Ireland) where he lives
and works. Since 1990, he has created video and slide installations: "Tell
Me What You Want" (1996), "The Wrong Place" (1996), "Factory"
(1995), "No Smoke without Fire" (1994), "At the End of
the Day" (1994), "The Only Good One is a Dead One" (1993),
"They're All the Same" (1991), "Same Difference" (1990).
Willie Doherty participated in several international group exhibitions.
He had one-person exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Bern, Kunstverein München,
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1996, the British School
at Rome in 1994, and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw.Since the
late 1980s Doherty’s work has been concerned with the way events
in Northern Ireland are covered in the media creating stereotypes and
clichés overtly against the basic principles of democracy and freedom
of information.
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