
KAMERA Cahier N° 9. Peter Downsbrough
- Publisher
- AVARIE / Labor Neunzehn
- Year
- 2024
- Specifications
- Soft cover with omega staple binding
21 x 14.5 cm
24 pages
Black and white plates
Papers Fedrigoni Sirio Rough Pearl 210 and Arena White Rough 120
Typeface Magister by Aldo Novarese, 1966
Cover letterpress by Archivio Tipografico, Turin
Digital and letterpress print by Moglia
75 numbered copies, each with a letterpress leporello
Typography, design and layout by Peter Downsbrough
Curated, edited and designed by Giuliana Prucca and Valentina Besegher Scotti
A special edition issue curated, designed and published by AVARIE, Paris, and Labor Neunzehn, Berlin. It accompanies the KAMERA programme while remaining an independent object to collect. The central idea that directs the montage of these small volumes is the interplay between addition and subtraction: a missing image from the projection, or an unreleased second taken from an artist's work, expanded over twenty-four pages, with a piece removed directly from the show enclosed in every copy. The editing sets up a dialogue between frames and performed writings drawn from texts, scripts, storyboards and notes, so that the exhibition is extended into a physical space.
KAMERA is a programme of experimental moving images and printed matter held in a former GDR building in Berlin. Each event shows a retrospective of one artist over four days, alongside a small display of their publications or works on paper, and sets out to foster a critical dialogue between different formats.
Associated with major international movements such as minimal art, conceptual art and visual poetry, Peter Downsbrough worked across sculpture, wall and room pieces, books, works on paper, moving images and video. His work, which has affinities with architecture and typography, explores the traditional use of space and language while criticising the power structures — urbanism among them — that influence social interactions and shape the landscape. Using mostly black against white and a reduced vocabulary of words, lines and geometric figures, his process offers a reflection on position, framing, displacement and interstitial spaces.