Victor Sloan: Borne Sulinowo at the Orchard Gallery,
Derry, Northern Ireland.
New Photographic Works
21 January - 18 February 1995
© Victor Sloan
In the summer of 1993 and 1994 Victor Sloan with
other Irish artists participated in a series of exhibitions and
performances entitled “Irish Days” at the Baltic Art Gallery in Uska,
Poland.
During their stay in Poland, Victor Sloan and the
other artists visited Borne Sulinowo. It had been a secret base for
the Soviet army, a town with 25,000 inhabitants which was hidden in
woodland close to the German border. The Red army left the base
overnight in the winter of 1992. Since then the town lies deserted.
Now only a police station exists as well as a tiny bar with three or
four tables. Borne Sulinowo is heavily polluted. Wrecks of military
vehicles and debris lie everywhere.
Victor Sloan, like the other Irish artists who went
there, was inspired to make new work.
Victor Sloan’s previous photographic works dealt with
his own personal history and experiences in Northern Ireland.
Victor Sloan’s observations in Borne Sulinowo reflect
on a process of demilitarising and decay of political ideology. The
current context of contemporary politics in Northern Ireland has
obvious resonance.
For
further information contact:
Orchard Gallery
Orchard Street
Derry
BT48 6EG
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