Silent Valley

Liam Crichton

5th June – 4th July 2015

Opening: Thurs 4th June 6-9pm

Silent Valley is a site-specific, multi-media installation encompassing sound, sculpture, and light. The title takes its name from the man-made reservoir that serves the city of Belfast the majority of its water supply. It is an area of ‘Outstanding Natural Beauty’ but at the same time is a human-formed, industrial artifice. The appropriation and re-contextualization of this sense of dichotomy in metaphorical relation to Belfast aligns with the artist’s developing field of research into physical space. In particular, urban voids – spaces absent from an everyday, conscious or acknowledged understanding. These are, however, still important places from a social and geographical perspective.
The presence of absence, an absent present or even a present absence.

This work marks a new point of experimentation as this will be the first time Crichton has co-produced an original score. The sound piece is in collaboration with Ricki O’Rawe and integrates recordings from the grounds of Silent Valley.

(Work may not be distributed or reproduced.)

Images by Simon Mills (@photosbysi)