Sam Smith
Exhibition view, “(dis)assembly”, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2021.
(photo: Bruno Lopes)
Exhibition view, “Form Variations”, Küntlerhaus Bethenian, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Exhibition view, “Notes”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Exhibition view, “A circuit”, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, 2017
Exhibition view, “(dis)assembly”, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2021.
(photo: Bruno Lopes)
Exhibition view, “Form Variations”, Küntlerhaus Bethenian, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Exhibition view, “Notes”, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2014
Exhibition view, “A circuit”, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, 2017
Sam Smith (1980, Sydney, Australia) lives and works in London, United Kingdom. The central theme of his work is a self-reflexive analysis of the language of cinema. Sam Smith got a MFA in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, London (2015). In 2017 and 2018 he did an artistic residency, Spaced 3: north by southeast, at Baltic Art Center, Sweden. In 2019 he was selected for the Contemporary Art at Stourhead, a programme by the National Trust in the UK. Selected individual exhibitions: (dis)assembly, 3 + 1 Arte Contemporânea, Portugal (2021); Capture, UNSW Galleries, Austrália (2021); Nearness, Stourhead National Trust, UK (2019); Lithic Choreographies, Gotland Kunstmuseet, Sweden (2018); A Circuit, 3+1 Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon (2017); E.1027, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2016); The Horizontal Window, The Telfer Gallery for Glasgow International (2016); Slow Form, CAV – Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal (2015); Slow Fragmentation, Screen Space, Melbourne (2015); NOTES, Australian Centre for Moving Image, Melbourne (2015); The Performative Minute, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014); and Notes on the Apparatus, selected by Vdrome for the Artists’ Film Biennial, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2014). Selected collective exhibitions: Let the field of your attention…soften and spread out, Kai Art Center, Tallinn (2019); Spaced 3: north by southeast, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2018); Assembly Point, London (2016); Ways of Looking, Gallery of Contemporary Art, E-WERK, Freiburg (2016); Objects from the Temperate Palm House, Bargain Spot, Edinburgh (2016); e Your Time Is Not My Time, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam (2015). Recently his films and performances have been selected to show at: Sheffield DocFest, Inglaterra (2021); Riga International Short Film Festival, Lithuania (2020); Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Germany (2019); Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Russia (2019) e International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (2019).
Selected works
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K (post analysis), 2021, Dismantled Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K, plywood, glass, 90 x 150 x 60 cm
Capture Pigments, 2021, Utramarine pigment on paper, 42 x 30 cm (photo: Bruno Lopes)
Untitled (lens 15), 2011
Ceraplast, cement, blackbutt wood, varnish, 10 x 10 x 34 cm
Bounding Box, 2013
Cement, plaster, brass, glass, 103 x 25 x 25 cm
Inversion (parte 1), 2013
Marble, cement, oak wood, glass, 50 x 40 x 40 cm
Inversion (parte 2), 2013
Marble, cement, oak wood, glass, 50 x 40 x 40 cm
Negative Sculpture 1, 2013
16mm film and photo printed on cotton paper, 39,5 x 32,5 cm
Negative Sculpture 2, 2013
16mm film and photo printed on cotton paper, 39,5 x 32,5 cm
Reflex Compositions, 2013 Super 16mm film transferred to HD Vídeo, colour, no sound
1’ 21’’, Edition 5 + 2 AP
Untitled, 2015
Hardwood, file printing on cotton paper, aluminum, steel, metal paint, 202 x 85.5 x 69 cm
Untitled, 2014, Cement, 20 x 22 x
Form Variations Bronze, 2014, Bronze, 20,5 x 16 x 12 cm, Edition 4/6
Form Variations, 2014, 4K single channel video Installation, sound, colour, 5’ 28’’, Edition 2/5 + 2 AP
Film Without a Past, 2012, Single channel HD video, stereo, color, 32’ 10’’, Edição 5 + 2 AP
Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K (post analysis), 2021, Dismantled Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5K, plywood, glass, 90 x 150 x 60 cm
Capture Pigments, 2021, Utramarine pigment on paper, 42 x 30 cm (photo: Bruno Lopes)
Untitled (lens 15), 2011
Ceraplast, cement, blackbutt wood, varnish, 10 x 10 x 34 cm
Bounding Box, 2013
Cement, plaster, brass, glass, 103 x 25 x 25 cm
Inversion (parte 1), 2013
Marble, cement, oak wood, glass, 50 x 40 x 40 cm
Inversion (parte 2), 2013
Marble, cement, oak wood, glass, 50 x 40 x 40 cm
Negative Sculpture 1, 2013
16mm film and photo printed on cotton paper, 39,5 x 32,5 cm
Negative Sculpture 2, 2013
16mm film and photo printed on cotton paper, 39,5 x 32,5 cm
Reflex Compositions, 2013 Super 16mm film transferred to HD Vídeo, colour, no sound
1’ 21’’, Edition 5 + 2 AP
Untitled, 2015
Hardwood, file printing on cotton paper, aluminum, steel, metal paint, 202 x 85.5 x 69 cm
Untitled, 2014, Cement, 20 x 22 x
Form Variations Bronze, 2014, Bronze, 20,5 x 16 x 12 cm, Edition 4/6
Form Variations, 2014, 4K single channel video Installation, sound, colour, 5’ 28’’, Edition 2/5 + 2 AP
Film Without a Past, 2012, Single channel HD video, stereo, color, 32’ 10’’, Edição 5 + 2 AP