Photographer, film maker, and Chinatown Soccer Club’s defender, Peter Sutherland is showing at Half Gallery tomorrow evening. Light and dark is explored in Sutherland’s exhibition, Victory over Darkness. Half Gallery explains:
“The title of the exhibition is taken from a sign Sutherland saw at a church in the California desert. For him, this combination of words is open to interpretation but can also stand as a type of global slogan about politics and war, sex and love, violence and peace, beauty and ugliness, struggle and freedom – with a tinge of Gothicism and romance. Imagery and situations that reflect these type of opposites is a strong aspect in the work; in fact, the 1970 documentary film “Gimme Shelter” by Alfred Maysles, which chronicles the last weeks of the Rolling Stones 1969 US tour, is the blueprint for Sutherland’s art. “Gimme Shelter” is the culmination of everything – an uncontrolled film with strong poetic visuals."
Victory over Darkness will be on view until October 15.
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