THROUGH MULTIPLE LENSES EXHIBITION

2015 // LETH & GORI STOREFRONT, COPENHAGEN [DK]

Walking through the city, I feel it leaning in on me. When I get back home I’ll be thick with it. Layered on to me, I have now become this too.

Through Multiple Lenses, shown at Leth & Gori Storefront, juxtaposes a series of distinct works made in response to how I reconstruct the city internally on these walks. How by moving down the street, it can be folded up within that walk; almost as you would fold a map, and suddenly up can become down, through which new links are revealed and a new city arises. Working with multiple exposure carried out on film, this film similar gets saturated in city. As we often relate to the different scales of the city at once, while moving through it you both navigate the overall route and to not trip on the curb, we have been trained to look at these images and start to make sense of them for ourselves. They become little new worlds for the audience to explore.

A new multi lenses camera obscura enabled the audience to inhabit a physical space of overlapping images. Inspired by the idea of the classic Danish street mirror, which allows occupants of an apartment to see down each side of the street via two mirrors mounted outside the window at a 45˚ angle. In the camera, the mirrors were hinged, and thus allowing for the passerby to alter the view by adjusting the mirrors—building an unspoken link between the interior and exterior of the camera. For more on the camera see Through Multiple Lenses Camera.

Through Multiple Lenses included individual prints C-prints from Invisible Cities, Close Ups, and Down The Street, along with a series of drypoints and a new multiple lensed camera obscura design specifically for the storefront space.