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Berlin by night - a dark, mysterious and strangely beautiful place depicted by artist Willie Doherty in a remarkable series of black and white photographs made during his recent year-long residency in the city. In Doherty's nocturnal Berlin there are no recognisable landmarks, no bright city lights or streets bustling with people. What he offers instead are tantalising and intriguing glimpses of light and traces of life in an otherwise pitch black void. Our attention is drawn to dimly illuminated exteriors and the promise of interior spaces from which we are excluded; the glow of a chandelier through partially opened blinds, a gleam reflected in a puddle, shadows cast in empty streets. Doherty's black and white photographs exist in a world between light and dark where images are transformed by our inability to locate them precisely. The photographs become readable only in relation to our knowledge of other images of post war Berlin and the memory of half-forgotten archival photographs, the blur of old news footage, EXTRACTS FROM A FILE represents a Berlin which perhaps never really existed.

At once cinematic and atmospheric, these photographs also extend Doherty's concerns with surveillance and documentation and find echoes in the artist's earlier work about the conflict in his native Northern Ireland.