Into The Void

A solo exhibition by Australian artist Sam Smith

Into The Void

Into The Void, 2009, Sam Smith, video still

In his first UK show, Sydney based artist Sam Smith is exhibiting his latest work Into The Void for its northern hemisphere premier. Having exhibited extensively throughout Australia as well as Japan, China, Thailand, Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Spain and New Zealand, Smith's work utilises the mechanics of cinematic production and special effects technologies to create parallel universes in which the 'rational behaviour of matter is displaced by a realm of digital possibility.'

This exhibition is a culmination of great second cities. Smith, from Australia's second city, has chosen Birmingham, England's, to exhibit his new work, Into The Void (2009), a work that combines montage, multiple exposure and digital compositing to build a tangent narrative. Smith searches New York, America's second city, for works of international Klein blue and a location that mirrors the site for Yves Klein's Le Saut dans le Vide (The Leap into the Void, 1960). The artist's journey culminates in a time- based recreation of Klein's famous jump.

Be the first to view Smith's work in this exclusive 4 hour premier event which is not to be missed.

www.samsmith.net.au

Image courtesy the artist and GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney.
Into The Void was commissioned by Next Wave for Next Wave Time Lapse at Federation Square, Melbourne.