Antony Cairns
PXL CTY
UV Ink on Puraiku 243g
200 x 170mm
Coptic binding with Aluminum slabs
Signed and numbered colophon.
Edition of 35.
US$850 (766 Euros)
Photographer Antony Cairns’ work has focuses on urban landscapes of various cities around the world. His approach is informed by the obsolecene of recording technologies and the history of the camera apparatus. PXL CTY is Cairns’ most recent body of work and was shot using the PXL 2000, a hand-held video camera that was introduced into the retail market in the 1980s. This recording device uses an audio cassettes as its medium, recording moving images as sound data.
ANTONY CAIRNS (b.1980, London) lives and works in London, England. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in photography from the London College of Printing in 2002. In 2015 Cairns received the Hariban Award and he was awarded the Images Vevey Special Jury Prize in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions include The Tale of Adam Earl Gordons, Théâtre de Verdure, Vevey (2018); TYO2-LDN4, Roman Road, London (2017); OSC – Osaka Station City, Roman Road, London (2016); and LA-LV / LDN Process, SferaExhibition, Kyoto, Japan (2016). His works have been shown in international group exhibitions, including Artificial Impressions, Stedelijk Museum Breda, Breda (2018); Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, London (2018); London Nights, Museum of London, London (2018); and A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age, George Eastman Museum, New York (2016). Upcoming residencies include Gapado Artist in Residence, Seogwipo-si, Rebublic of Korea, in Autumn 2019.