ANDERS PETERSEN
November 23, 2004 through February 12, 2005









December 20 & 27, 2004

Stark and grainy black-and-white images by a Swedish photographer. A series of small prints show people in a mental institution – a Patti smith look-alike pulls her hair, a man lies on his bed flicking ashes on the sheet. A more recent body of work, more diaristic in subject matter, is seemingly haphazardly hung, with some prints so high on the wall that they are difficult to see. These pictures recall Nan Goldin’s use of family and friends, but the high-contrast images are harsher and colder, while still feeling intimate and personal. The gallery’s back room is hung with prints from the sixties and seventies made in a seedy Hamburg bar: the patrons seem to be having the time of their lives even when they are about to punch each other in the face.