For Immediate Release Contact: Carol O’Sullivan

February 5, 2007 412-681-5449

Filmmakers Announce New Gibson + Recoder Installation

(Pittsburgh, PA) – Filmmakers Galleries present Vehicular Circular, a new installation by New York-based artists Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder. It is on view March 9 through April 15, 2007. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 9 at 7:00pm. It is free and open to the public.

In this installation, two 16mm film projectors rotate on mechanized platforms, recasting images from a 1970’s drivers education film onto a circular screen. Images of two drivers, one male and the other female, pursue one another without end.

Gibson and Recoder enjoy using projected light to articulate space and time. Film projectors and celluloid may be the materials, but these constructions in light and shadow are, in fact, the elemental properties of cinema. Deeply rooted in the history of viewing in a dark theater, the materials here are “exposed.” Light spills in the shifting of film from its enclosed chambers to the uncanny openness and unfamiliar illumination of installation. “We are exploring the shift, elaborating the displacement,” the artists explain, “recasting the light mechanics of a peculiar estrangement of the medium.”

Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder began their collaborative installations and performances in 2000. Since then they have exhibited their work nationally and internationally, including: the Whitney Museum of American Art, MOMA, ICA (London), Barbican Art Gallery (London), Peter Kilchmann Gallery (Zurich), Viennale (Vienna), KW (Berlin), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Museu do Chiado (Portugal), and Image Forum (Tokyo). Their work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY) and Museum of Contemporary Cinema Foundation (Paris).

Filmmakers Galleries are located at 477 Melwood Avenue, North Oakland. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 5:00, and during public film screenings. Free and open to the public. For more information call 412-681-5449, or visit: www.pghfilmmakers.org

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