Peter Sutherland "Peter Sutherland"
Half Gallery
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Victory Over Darkness is an exhibition by Peter Sutherland, a raconteur, traveler and filmmaker. Sutherland's voyages are embedded in his diverse body of work, which extends well beyond photography to include installation, the ready-made, collages and sand paintings. The show depicts a spectrum of light and dark, dark and light, both intertwined physically and metaphorically. Victory over Darkness is an anecdote of unassuming objects and unpretentious subjects.
The title of the exhibition is taken from a sign Sutherland saw at a church in the California desert. For him, this combination of words is open to interpretation but can also stand as a type of global slogan about politics and war, sex and love, violence and peace, beauty and ugliness, struggle and freedom - with a tinge of Gothicism and romance. Imagery and situations that reflect these type of opposites is a strong aspect in the work; in fact, the 1970 documentary film "Gimme Shelter" by Alfred Maysles, which chronicles the last weeks of the Rolling Stones 1969 US tour, is the blue print for Sutherland's art. "Gimme Shelter" is the culmination of everything - an uncontrolled film with strong poetic visuals.
The series of pictures of people climbing under a fence might be his most literal, showing an anti-authority passage from blackness, but also underlying his humor (the people going under the fence are trying to get to a free reggae concert in Prospect Park, Brooklyn).
The arcade as a metaphor for the game is an idea that Sutherland is personally attached to and closely ties with Victory over Darkness. The game becomes a symbol for what we choose to play or not, follow rules or not and in the end, can there really be victory over the void?
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Schedule
from September 20, 2011 to October 15, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-20 from 18:00 to 20:00