Artwork Details
| Artist: | Gabriele Peters |
| Series: | Dark Days — New York |
| Title: | No. 1 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Medium / Surface: | UV Print on Coated Polyester Textile (Airtex), mounted on 10 mm PVC Foam Board (Forex) |
| Origin: | Printed from an original black-and-white negative, hand-processed by the artist in 2006 |
| Dimensions: | 80 × 80 × 10 cm / 31.50 × 31.50 × 3.94 in |
| Edition: | 1/1 — Unique; the artist reserves the right to retain a non-sale Artist’s Proof (A.P.) for her private archive |
| Signature: | Signed “1/1 Gabriele Peters” verso (lower left) |
| Certificate of Authenticity: | Included |
| Exhibition History: | Group Exhibition, Slow Art (curated), Art Gallery of SIGGRAPH 2008, Los Angeles, USA, 2008, with catalogue |
| Description: | Dark Days — New York, No. 1 marks the opening work of the series Dark Days — New York, which explores the isolation of modern urban existence. The series was created through a unique hybrid analog-digital process developed by the artist. The photographs depict street-level intersections in New York City, captured on black-and-white panchromatic film from a significant distance. The human figures present in the images are imperceptible to the naked eye in the original negatives; only extreme enlargement renders them visible — a visual metaphor for the invisibility of the individual within the urban mass. The estrangement of city life finds its formal expression in the deliberate aesthetic of the series: coarse grain, motion blur, camera shake, and multiple exposures conspire to create a stylized alienation that mirrors the psychological distance between the metropolis and those who inhabit it. |