Luke Barber-Smith's tower series is a continuing investigation into the emotional language of architecture. Built from steel, photographic prints and magnets, the towers are a study of color and form, both in relation to a modern structure of larger proportion.
The body of material in Studio Work was developed during Paul Sepuya's 2011-2012 artist residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem. The project is both a volume of photographs—formal portraits, loose snapshots, still-lifes and details of the his studio space—and an ongoing and variable installation composed of those materials accumulated in the studio, tracing the artist’s occupation and photo-making from the beginning to the end of the residency.
Michel Foucault said: "A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers." This body of photographs examines the way in which the landscape was constructed to enforce separation, in the form of separate amenities, during the time of apartheid in South Africa.
