Solid State: Sunlight, a solo show by Harry Sanderson ran at Levy Delval in Brussels between January 21 and March 12, 2016. The exhibition was curated by Arcadia Missa director, Rozsa Zita Farkas and was the outcome of a research period in which the London-Berlin based artist spent time working out how to materialise digital images in physical and sculptural space.

The works in Solid State: Sunlight comprised of hanging sculptures that act as lenses through which an image is created and brought to life on the gallery wall in front with the help of the beam of a torchlight, producing “a new level of actuality” for the image in question.

Also projected in the space was a video showing Sanderson’s making process behind each piece, or lens, touching upon the inherent archival nature that the exhibition and installation itself alludes to by housing these small-scale ‘devices’. They share an aesthetic with similar image-making objects used in early cinema, or with early projection techniques.**

Harry Sanderson’s Solid State: Sunlight was on at Levy Delval, running January 21 – March 12, 2016.

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As part of South London gallery Arcadia Missa‘s ‘(networked) every whisper is a crash on my ears’ programme, artist Harry Sanderson‘s Unified Fabric exposes the violence of the digital image. Based around his 2013 essay, ‘Human Resolution’ published in Mute Magazine in April this year, he explores the labour required to produce the technology that generates immaterial art and our complicity in perpetuating these exploitative working conditions in a globalised, post-Fordist economic context.

The exhibition is an extension on Sanderson’s ideas in ‘Human Resolutions’, as well as last month’s Mining the Object panel discussion, and sees Sanderson construct his own render farm -a high powered super-computer typically used for rendering animation film -to be exhibited with work by Hito Steyerl, Clunie Reid, Melika Ngombe Kolongo & Daniella Russo, Maja Cule and Takeshi Shiomitsu, as well as writing by Eleanor Weber and Michael Runyan.

For this interview we joined Sanderson, along with Arcadia Missa founders Rozsa Farkas and Tom Clark, in Farkas’ bedroom to talk about the Unified Fabric exhibition, opening October 15, along with the violence of the image, art-as-political and extending discourse beyond their own four walls. **