Antony Cairns Live Performance

Artist Antony Cairns (London, 1980) will be on site assembling one of his iconic images of the metropolis at night printed on vintage collections of tinted IBM computer punch cards. Cairns' archive of captivating images acts as a starting point for the artist’s wider exploration of the history of photographic reproduction, experimental printing methods and the aesthetics of abstraction. Cairns’ work occupies a unique space between photography, installation and assemblage. At the core of the artist’s practice is a fascination with the process by which the metaphorical potential of the photographic image can be extended through innovative methods of reproduction and repetition. As such, fragmentary images and abstracted shapes are refigured in intriguing compositional formats. Cairns’ dystopian visions of urban centres are devoid of people and have their root in stills captured in global metropolises from 2014-2026 on a Minox 35I camera (introduced, 1974).

Antony Cairns, TYO5_010, 2026 - Courtesy of the artist