
Strategy: Sever/Isolate
Catalogue
- Year
- 1989
- Dimensions
- Each: 121.9 × 182.9 cm (48 × 72 1/16 in.); 122 × 182.9 cm (48 × 72 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Willie Doherty
Artist

Photography
Willie Doherty is an Irish artist working primarily in photography, video, and text-based installations that interrogate the representation of conflict and contested histories. His practice emerged in the 1980s, examining the visual and linguistic frameworks through which political violence is documented and understood. Working across still and moving image, Doherty constructs narratives that resist singular interpretation, often layering archival material with personal testimony and landscape photography. His work has been exhibited internationally and engages deeply with questions of perspective, witness, and the politics of the image itself.
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More by Willie Doherty
Ghost Story
2007 · Video, high definition, projection, colour and sound (stereo)
Non Specific Threat (Production Still) 2003
2007 · Digital print on paper
Empty
2006 · Super 16mm film transferred to video (color, sound)
The Bridge
1992 · 2 photographs, black and white, on paper mounted onto aluminium panel
Record
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- Willie Doherty
- Year
- 1989
- Dimensions
- Each: 121.9 × 182.9 cm (48 × 72 1/16 in.); 122 × 182.9 cm (48 × 72 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1989-101384
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified



