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📕🪨 🏆 🐄 Alternative Ulster 3 - 30 Jun

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Alternative Ulster
3 - 30 June 2022
Queen’s University Quad, Belfast

Commissioned and on display thanks to @belfastphotofestival
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Yes⛳️ • @belfastphotofestival ALTERNATIVE U

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Kensuke Koike

Belfast Photo Festival is delighted to present this new body of work by renowned Japanese artist Kensuke Koike, which draws on photographic archives to present an alternative vision of Northern Ireland’s past.

For the project, Koike worked with the photographic archives of National Museums Northern Ireland (NMNI) and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), sourcing the images he eventually used from the thousands contained within each collection.

Two of our most historically important archives of photography, these repositories document Northern Ireland and its people over the decades, providing an unparalleled glimpse into our layered and complex past.

Using techniques of cutting, collaging and layering to rework the original images, Koike’s interventions make surreal these historic depictions of Northern Ireland. Reimagining our past through a playfully subversive lens, these images bypass the easy stereotypes that have come to define this place in much of visual culture; breathing new life into the archive and allowing for new visions of our past to emerge.

Exhibition delivered in Partnership with Queen’s University Belfast / The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s. Images courtesy of National Museums NI, and the Deputy Keeper of the Records, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. With special thanks to Stephen Weir at National Museums NI and Joy Carey at PRONI for their assistance with this project.

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