The Visitor
Artist
Willie Doherty
(b. 1959)
Date2008
MediumDVD
ClassificationsVideo
Credit LineCollection & image © Hugh Lane Gallery.
Purchased, 2010.
© Willie Doherty.
Object number2025
DescriptionFirst 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.On View
Not on view
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