Peter Richards | The Belfast Way
Curator: Sergio Edelsztein
March 5, 2005 - May 21, 2005
Peter Richard’s photographs, made with large pin-hole cameras, show a series of memorials. In a society battered by conflict and haunted by history, “memorials,” he says, “express choices made between what will be forgotten and what remembered – and by whom. In the particular circumstances of Belfast, memorials invariably serve to dramatize difference and heighten tension.
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From city centre monument to the murals and gardens of local communities, memorials that are sacred to one, may appear sacrilegious to another.” As the drama is heightened by the strong polarization of the print, we see no difference between an official war monument, a memorial to victims of armed struggle, and an ad-hoc memento to a traffic accident victim.
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