Barbara Probst
dal 27/2/2009 al 3/4/2009
Segnalato da
27/2/2009
Barbara Probst
Murray Guy Gallery, New York
The artist works within a structure redolent of conceptual art - she simultaneously exposes multiple photographs of the same scene with a radio-controlled shutter release - but using the techniques of studio photography. Her dispersal of one moment into a series of images becomes a means to address photographic conventions and the staging of these images in memory and cognition.
Murray Guy is pleased to present its third solo exhibition of
photographs by Barbara Probst. This show will comprise two new multi-
paneled works, Exposure #55: Munich, Waisenhausstrasse 65, 01.17.08,
1:55 p.m and Exposure #56: N.Y.C., 428 Broome Street, 06.05.08, 1:42 pm.
Probst works within a structure redolent of conceptual art—she
simultaneously exposes multiple photographs of the same scene with a
radio-controlled shutter release—but using the techniques of studio
photography. Her dispersal of one moment into a series of images
becomes a means to address photographic conventions—portraiture,
surveillance, commercial photography, cinematography—and the staging
of these images in memory and cognition. Oftentimes, the process of
looking at her work approaches forensics as the viewer tries to
construct a narrative out of a single, tense instant.
Both works in this show unfold as lush interior mise-en-scènes.
Probst’s cameras peer through keyholes and doorways, around furniture,
framing figures and domestic surfaces in ambiguous arrangements. Yet
the simultaneity of Probst’s exposures frustrates any closure: it is
impossible to look at one photograph in each series without meeting
many others. As in conceptual art, the photographic apparatus itself
is made visible. However, Probst frames her cameras and tripods as
part of the works’ open narratives; they become not only metaphors for
the figures’ means of self-representation, but also ciphers for the
viewers, scattered throughout the gallery space.
Barbara Probst was born in 1964 in Munich, Germany and lives and works
in New York and Munich. She has been the subject of numerous solo
exhibitions, most recently at Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France,
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI and the Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her work was featured at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, in the 2006 “New Photography” exhibition.
Upcoming solo exhibitions include Stills Gallery, Edinburgh and a
midcareer survey at the Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany. In 2007,
Steidl published an extensive monograph of her work, Barbara Probst:
Exposures, which is available from the gallery.
Opening reception Saturday 28 February 6 – 8 pm
Murray Guy Gallery
453 West 17 Street - New York
Gallery hours are Tuesday – Saturday 10am – 6pm.
Free admission