PETER FRIEDL
22 september - 10 december 2005
Playgrounds 22 September
– 15 October
  
Playgrounds,
1995-2002, slides, DVD-installation (exhibition views, Brussels)
Playgrounds consists
of photos of public playgrounds from around the world taken
by the artist since 1995; the form of the work is color slides
in landscape format, arranged alphabetically according to the
name of the place. An updated selection of 500 images - edited
as a silent movie and transferred to DVD - will be shown in
four kid's size projections.
"At first glance reminiscent of the anthropological projects of the first half of the twentieth century, Peter Friedl adopts a comparative approach, or at least his form of presentation suggests a kind of comparison: the quest for meaning at the intersection of repetition (image on image) and differentiation (the differences between the pictures)." *
Playgrounds is not an
anthological, quantitative venture: the pictures shown in the
series are as important as the pictures not shown or not existing
which makes of it a study in narration.
Looking at children's playgrounds from an aesthetic perspective
has nothing to do with expanding the concept of the playground.
The project plays with the genre of conceptual photography and
at the discursive level with more social history oriented global,
design, and urbanism themes. Commentary, discourse, and background
information are, however, not initially visible but are first
legible in the series. The world is viewed through the playground.
*Roger M. Buergel, “Peter Friedl: Playgrounds”,
in How do we want to be governed
(Figure and Ground), exhibition catalogue, Miami Art
Central
(Miami 2004), p. 54
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