Anthony Cairns: PXL City

Anthony Cairns: PXL City
Apr 25, 2024 – Jun 8, 2024

16 East 71st Street
New York, NY 10021

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is pleased to present PXL CTY, a new exhibition presenting for the first time in a solo show the photographs by British artist Antony Cairns. An opening reception will be held on Thursday April 25th, 2024 from 6 to 8 PM with the artist in attendance and a book signing and walk through is scheduled Saturday April 27 from 3 to 6 PM. The gallery space is located at 16 East 71st Street, New York, NY, 10021.

Antony Cairns (b. London, 1980) takes photographs at night, using the available light cast by buildings in urban centers like London, Tokyo and Los Angeles. In many cases the structures that he chooses are still under construction, little more than the skeletons of the office buildings and luxury apartments of that they are destined to become. His work is resolutely non-topographic, in the conventional sense in which photography has been used to record spaces, structures and architectural styles. There is more, however, to Cairns’ work than simply his distinctive approach to picturing the urban environment. His is a practice that accepts and embraces the photographic medium in its sophisticated entirety: from the effect use of light on analogue film, through a range of experimental darkroom processes, to an innovative and highly specialized understanding of the supports available to the photographic image in the twenty-first century.

Cairns presents his work in a number of complementary but contrasting ways: from painstakingly layered and assembled artists books LDN (2010), LPT (2012), OSC (2016) to translucent films of silver gelatin applied directly to sheets of aluminium, LDN2 (2013), LDN3 (2014) to experiments with electronic ink, both in working electronic Ink readers, hacked to contain his complete work, LDN EI, (2015) and on their extracted frozen screens; strange distant descendants of the daguerreotype TYO2 (2017).

Cairns has recently begun to explore the prehistory of the digital age in several related ways, by printing his works and assembling them as montages on early computer punch cards OSC Osaka Station City, (2016) and by using the screens of outmoded digital cameras and equipment to screen and project his work.


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