Join Bentley Fox on Saturday 2 August as they share the process and outcomes of their time as Residency Artist.
Safelight invites visitors to step into The Art House’s Darkroom to explore a multi-sensory sound and light installation created by the artist. In the surrounding space, Bentley Fox presents images and research produced during the residency, all part of their ongoing Safelight project. Emma will be there to guide visitors through the immersive work, creating a gentle, grounding, and calming atmosphere.
Safelight explores the sensory and physical experience of being in a darkroom. It looks at the Darkroom as a queer space for healing, reflection, vulnerability, and intimacy. It celebrates the magic of watching images appear from nothing, and the trust and risk involved in that process. The artist explores how the warm red light, the slow, rhythmic movements, and the gentle sounds of developing prints work in sync with the intimacy of the enclosed Darkroom space provide space to focus on our bodies – helping to ground us, calming the nervous system, and
inviting stillness. Their work also challenges the ways darkrooms are often inaccessible, whether due to cost or exclusivity, and reimagines them as spaces of transformation, possibility, and magic.
Find out more about Safelight and book this artist led event here.
