Belfast Exposed

Exhibitions

3rd Aug - 16th Sep

Belfast Exposed Presents: Portrait of Belfast

BELFAST EXPOSED PRESENTS: PORTRAIT OF BELFASTTo accompany Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5, Belfast Exposed is inviting Northe...

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3rd Aug - 16th Sep

Portrait of Humanity Vol. 5

In partnership with the British Journal of PhotographyBelfast Exposed is delighted to be hosting the British Journal of P...

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Community

21st May - 22nd May

Showing the faces of dementia with Alzheimer’s NI

Ahead of the Alzheimer’s Society Annual Conference 2019 (ASAC19), Belfast Exposed was commissioned by Alzheimer’s NI to w...

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4th May - 20th May

Coronation Generation 2023

Bringing together young people from across communities for Coronation GenerationIn April 2023, Belfast Exposed worked wit...

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Archive_Belfast

Gallery 1

30th Apr 2004 to 4th Jun 2004

About The Exhibition

In Archive_Belfast the archive, repository of the city's conflictual past, is the object of investigation. Hils focuses attention away from the visible outcomes of conflict towards the underlying structures and patterns of thought by which conflict is both determined and contained. Hils' fascination with Belfast's archives lies not so much with their content, as with the systems, within which objects and facts have been, and continue to be, collected and organised. Simultaneously shaped by and supporting systems of social organisation, management, surveillance and control, the archive becomes in time the sum and store of these processes, product and guardian of the particular thinking behind its own construction. As the process of categorisation moulds fact into meaning, the archive itself becomes an object of enquiry, a cipher to be broken, a key to deeper understanding. The place in which our future may be revealed, encoded within conceptions of the past.

The Artists

Claudio Hills

Artist Biography

Archive_Belfast has been supported by the following organisations: Ballymacarrett Arts & Culture Society | Belfast Central Library | Belfast City Hall | Clonard Monastery | Ex-Prisoners Assistance Committee | Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland | Linenhall Library | Irish Republican History Museum (Conway Mill) | People's Museum at Fernhill House | Public Records Office of Northern Ireland | Museums Council of Northern Ireland | RUCGC Historical Society | Police Service of Northern Ireland, Knocknagoney | Police Service of Northern Ireland, Musgrave Street | Royal Ulster Rifles Museum | Royal Victoria Hospital

Archive_Belfast is a Belfast Exposed new work commission. It is being published by Hatje Cantz with texts by Klaus Honnef, John Taylor and Anna Eifert-Kornig.