The American Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Jersey, lives in Brussels) studied art and architecture and, together with Robert Barry, Sol Lewitt and Lawrence Weiner, is one of the very first conceptual book artists. Since the start of the seventies he has incorporated text and line drawings into his books, and later geographical maps and photos of urban spaces too. The motivation behind his consistent and sharply delineated oeuvre is an examination of the meaning of 'place'. As early as 1993, the publisher, book collector and curator Guy Schraenen already wrote the following about his publications: 'One might call it the absolute zero of the book, since it presents itself in the simplest form'. The exhibition gives a survey of all the books that have been published so far (which amounts to eighty-four!), which Downsbrough has created in collaboration with publishers or on his own since 1972. A book about all his books provides a commentary on this impressive aspect of his artistic career.