‘Project for an Irish Landscape, June1981” 2014. Inkjet print 1’30 m x 1’30 m and plastic sheet.

The starting point for this work is three photos I took while participating in a protest march in Dublin, in June 1981, in support of the IRA hunger strikers who were kept in special prison blocks, called H blocks. The march took place soon after the death ( after weeks of being on a hunger strike to demand a political status for the IRA prissioners ) of Bobby Sands, making of the march not only a political statement but a highly charged emotional event. My personal implication in the story, – it was me who was marching with the people who appear in the photo – was from the beginning, at the core of this project, in which the actions of looking, seeing and how we perceive the image, interrelate with the actions of participation in a political act, of remembrance, and how we read “history”. How do we construct “history”, and how do we tell a story?