Chris Smith: Inland Architect and Sarah Best

Antena is host to a temporary settlement inhabited by an unusual visitor. Work by Chris Smith.

Sarah Best in the Project Wall Space. From the artist,

“Shot almost exclusively with a cell phone camera, Daily Photos capture people in my circle of friends and acquaintances—writers, cyclists, and dance artists — and puts the viewer in a position where he or she feels like an intimate equal. Other images—layered, painterly, and abstract— are a physical response to my environment. Multiple shots of the same subject create the sense of approaching, circling, or passing something, and crystallize the feeling of being in real space and time. Two points of inspiration for this project are Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems (1964), which capture fleeting moments in a conversational tone, which can belie the poem’s underlying formal structure, and Robert Mapplethorpe’s Polaroids (1970-75), which are similarly intimate and immediate. The cell phone camera, which produces images that can be viewed and shared instantaneously, but which are necessarily limited and flawed, is the contemporary equivalent of the Polaroid camera.”