The Horizontal Window for Glasgow International 2016

The Telfer Gallery are pleased to announce the commission of new work by London based artist Sam Smith. The Telfer Gallery are in conversation with Sam Smith to develop a project which will be presented at the gallery in April 2016, as part of Glasgow International’s Supported Programme.

Sam Smith will be delivering work which will respond to the dynamic between the interior and exterior spaces at the The Telfer Gallery’s new ground floor and public facing space. Working across video, sculpture, performance and installation, Smith’s work draws heavily upon the language of cinema; he uses techniques such as framing, montage and composition to explore the mediation of form through the camera lens. Within both his videos and performance, Smith makes subtle software interventions drawing the viewer’s attention to a shift in cinematic vocabulary, adapting historic modes of moving image to incorporate a move away from an anthropocentric vision.

The project marks the first solo presentation of Sam Smith’s work to a Scottish audience in The Telfer Gallery’s new space on Ross Street, in the heart of the Barras Market. We are excited to be presenting this commission as part of the 7th edition of Glasgow International in 2016 and would like to take this opportunity to thank Glagsow International for their support of the project. We look forward to releasing more information about the project in the near future.