Glamour Studios

Bridget Smith´s photo series "Glamour Studios" depict empty stage sets used
for porn movies. The shifting boundaries between public and personal
space in such situations, as well as how their corresponding
experiences are constructed and signalled, lies at the heart of
Smith´s work. In one sense she is catalogueing architectures of
desire. Whether the thematic hotel rooms of California´s Madonna Inn,
the gated architecture of Lake Las Vegas, sound recording studios,
sporting arenas or the design of low-cost glamour studios are taken
as her subject, these are all spaces where particular and recognised
activities take place (but are not pictured as such by Smith).
Furthermore, these sites negotiate between public and private space
in terms of the creation of illusory fantasy worlds which cover over
mundane reality.

Bridget Smith was recently in a soloshow at Imago 02 at Centro de
Arte Salamanca as well as a group show of new aquisitions at the
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. This year she
will participate at a show at the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, Minnesota.