hpgrp Gallery
is pleased to announce
the opening of Kate Peters
Stranger Than Fiction
Opening Reception: Thursday 17th February 2011, 6 – 8pm
hpgrp Gallery
529 West 20th St
New York
NY10011
Tel: 212 727 2491
Opening Hours: Tue-Sat 11am - 6pm
February, 2011—hpgrp Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Stranger Than Fiction, which features photographs by the British artist Kate Peters. Divided into two series, “Home” and “Stranger than Fiction,” Peters’ images depict both interior and exterior scenes that, while lacking human beings within the frames of the composition, are nevertheless imbued with their presence. Primarily shot in locations across the United States and Europe, the images capture the imprints that have been left behind by the people who have passed through a space, thereby telling the history of human experience united by the smallest, loneliest traces of our existence.
Peters has always been interested in the spaces that we inhabit both in physical and psychological realms; the way that we, as humans, construct personal environments using the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details—an old newspaper on the floor, a drain stopper in the bathtub, a light bulb in a windowsill, a pink lace canopy above a bed. When we abandon a space, these discarded objects remain, becoming the traces of the experiences we had—the fights with lovers, the evenings spent watching television in a hotel room, the moments of heartbreak and triumph. In Peters’ photographs, these traces are frozen in time, allowing the viewer the opportunity to pause to observe them, to use them to construct a fictional narrative that can be juxtaposed upon the existing space to create a subjective history.
