For the start of I-20’s program in 2001, two European artists will have their first solo shows in New York. They begin with different notions of the landscape expressed through their imagery, metaphor and technique.
A mobile home in a remote corner of Northern Ireland is the setting for Una Henry’s languorous 5-minute video work, Sometimes Not Always. The artist is the protagonist. Her ensuing destructive action detonates her private vision of landscape and home: showing us a means of shutting down without looking back.
Following the production of the video, Henry developed nine digital drawings – a post-storyboard that depicts the narrative in between the edited video frames. Taken out of their original sequence, these drawings create another point of entry to the work. Sometimes Not Always received support from Smart Project Space in Amsterdam.
Una Henry was born in the town of Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1971. She was educated at the University of Ulster in Belfast; the University of Northumbria in Newcastle; and received an MFA at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She was the recipient of the 1997 Prix de Rome. She has had exhibitions at W139 in Amsterdam and the Cokkie Snoei Gallery in Rotterdam. Henry lives and works in Amsterdam and Northern Ireland.