As Northern Ireland marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, join Belfast Exposed to experience the stunning new work from internationally acclaimed photographer Donovan Wylie, as he looks back on Northern Ireland’s troubled past and revisits the themes of his earlier work.
This latest work, Blinded by the very force it imagined it could handle, features a new film from Donovan Wylie and Peter Mann, based on their documentation of the Maze Prison’s demolition in 2007. Given unfettered access to the Maze, Wylie & Mann filmed the process of the prison’s outer wall being demolished. This was itself a follow-up to Wylie’s hugely successful 2004 work The Maze, which saw him photograph the prison complex as it stood empty in a post-Good Friday Agreement state of suspended animation.
Blinded by the very force it imagined it could handle shows us the results of this filming for the very first time, and is presented both in the context of Wylie’s work investigating the architecture of power and conflict, as well as of the recent 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
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