As part of the larger context of the Triennial of Photography, the exhibition BUT I | WORLD | I SEE | YOU will present works by more than 40 international transgenerational artists. The opening chapter deciphers (sepulchral) landscapes and culture of obsolescence imbued with historical memories and informed by personal experience, myth, and ideology, or how significance affects the images’ overall latent meanings.

First shown to critical acclaim at dOCUMENTA 13, Willie Doherty’s ’Secretion’ is a site-specific film installation which draws on the possibilities of lost and forgotten narratives located somewhere between recent history and a near future. Shot on location in and around Kassel, Germany, the powerful narrative at times presents echoes of Doherty’s previous work ‘Ghost Story’ 2007, pulling personal histories and experience to the foreground of the Kassel landscape. This same landscape served as the backdrop of much of the folklore collected by the Brothers Grimm while they lived and worked in Kassel.

Included is ‘Interval IV’, a monumental Jacquard tapestry and the fourth work in Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s acclaimed Interval series (2023–2025). Woven from silk, wool, cotton, and Lurex, the tapestry combines photography and collage to create a richly layered scene that is both precise and dreamlike. A Victorian era portrait—typically an emblem of industry, empire, and permanence—is disrupted by images of underground geological formations and fragments of contemporary ruins. These juxtapositions situate the scars of human ambition within the deep time of geology, a register that unsettles all notions of stability and endurance.