V1 Gallery (NYC) hosted by 558 Concept Space:

BABEL TALES REDUX
A solo exhibition by Peter Funch

Opening Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5 - 10 PM.

Show runs Sept 7-Oct 8

V1 GALLERY NYC
Hosted by 558 Concept Space
558 West 21st Street (@ West Side Highway)
NY 10011, New York, USA
Natalie Bertaux
c: 917 526 7201
www.v1gallery.com

Babel Tales focuses on human relations and interaction in a metropolis. Through repetition and juxtaposition Funch investigates human similarities and collective behavior, creating a strange, poetic and detailed picture of our presence as both individuals and communities in the public sphere. His uncanny works raise questions of reality contra fiction, and they challenge the notion of photography as being a depiction of a certain moment in time. Funch’s works are documents of moments that never existed, as they are composed of thousands of frozen moments taken over the duration of several weeks for each work. By shooting at the exact same position over a period of time, Funch is able to superimpose images, and he hereby creates a fictional work based on documentary photography.

In "High Noon" an inexplicable number of handcuffed individuals litter around the prison waiting to be taken in. In "Caretaker" the explosion of colours fulfills our senses while we are invaded by doubt... can these coincidences be purely fortuitous ?

Peter Funch (Denmark, b 1974) is currently exhibiting at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art outside Copenhagen, Denmark, as part of the overwhelming Living exhibition. A large part of the Babel Tales series will also be included in the upcoming and celebrated Mannheim Foto Festival in Germany.