Peter Downsbrough, AND [BACK, 2005, 04:37 PAL b&w sound (videostill)

Galerie Erna Hécey 1c, rue des Fabriques 1000 Brussels Belgium (city map) Send E-mail tel +32 (2) 502 00 24 www.ernahecey.com

Erna Hecey Gallery has the pleasure to invite you to a special exhibition, on the occasion of the ArtBrussels Gallery's Night, 24th April 2009:

Peter Downsbrough scrutinizes places, structurally and formally. Here, the viewer finds him/herself in familiar surroundings: the highway, an industrial storage area, an intersection - the interior of an art center and its immediate surroundings. Repetition plays a dominant role: repetition of views, of camera movement; repetition (and alternation) of interior and exterior, of ambient sound and silence.

As examples of an 'archeology of the present' (Foucault), these are spaces of 'our time and age' - at the same time old and new, known, yet strange. More interesting however is the way Downsbrough always comes back to a specific topology - and how this topology repeats, doubles and mirrors itself in the film as film. In doing so, many spaces (many topoi: common places) appear, where viewers can lodge themselves - as long as the film lasts.

Films shown (in loop):
FROM [ TO ], 2003, 14:30 PAL b&w sound
AND [BACK, 2005, 04:37 PAL b&w sound
ET/C, 2004, 08:25 PAL b&w sound
THRU, 2003, 09:32 PAL col. and b&w sound
]AND HERE, 2007, 23:54 PAL col. and b&w sound
Each film can be screened individually on request.

On the same occasion, two new books by Peter Downsbrough will be presented:

Two Lines Titled 4.08
Two Lines Untitled 4.08

Each 48 pp, b/w, 16,5 x 10,5 cm
Published by Galerie Erna Hecey, 2009