Peter Downsbrough

Zander Galerie Paris is honored to announce its upcoming exhibition revisiting The PS1 – Special Project by American artist Peter Downsbrough. Originally conceived in 1980 for PS1 in Long Island City, N.Y., this project marked one of Downsbrough’s earliest interventions incorporating photography. Through a calibrated dialogue between what the artist describes as “photographs which look at a situation” and the architecture that frames them, the work invites viewers to reconsider the interplay between space, light, and the urban environment. At PS1, a large photograph was installed opposite two windows onto one of which two lines had been applied with black tape, while two groups of three photographs were facing each other on the remaining walls. The large photograph shows a lamppost in a nearly deserted street, echoing the visual intervention on the windows and creating a dynamic interaction of light and shadow that unfolded in real time. The exhibition at Zander Galerie Paris will recreate this spatial dialogue, adapting the original concept to the gallery’s architecture and offering a renewed encounter with this seminal work.