Briget Smith Cyanotypes!

Bridget Smith: The Eye Needs A Horizon

Frith Street Gallery
London 1F 9JJ

22 January 2016 – 3 March 2016

In this exhibition Bridget Smith revisits an early fascination with the architecture and aura of cinema spaces. Using film, photography and objects Smith examines the different physical elements of the auditorium, creating a sculptural installation made up of individual works in the form of a deconstructed cinema space.
Blueprint for a Curtain is a 1:1 scale cyanotype print depicting a silk cinema curtain. The photograph itself spills off the gallery wall in a cascade of paper onto the floor. One of the earliest photographic processes (also known as blueprint), the cyanotype technique uses ultra-violet light to create two-tone representations on paper. With their intense colour and hand-made process the prints possess a very evident materiality.
Blueprint for a Sea is a series of cyanotypes created by photographing cinema seating, but they also allude to the wave-like forms and light refractions on the surface of the sea. These works subtly re-imagine an exterior landscape through interior space.