The Horizontal Window

The Telfer Gallery is presenting  the exhibition ‘The Horizontal Window’, comprising of new work by London based APT artist Sam Smith, as part of Glasgow International’s Supported Programme.

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 Horizontal Window’ is conceptualised as a multi-faceted project that explores the window as a framing device in Modernist architecture and how it can be related to the language of the cinematic frame. For his project at The Telfer Gallery, Sam Smith will present a large-scale architectural installation that will act as a site for a new video work and performance.