![Image: Martin Smith, [Absence Glacier], 2021. Courtesy the artist and Res Artis.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Martin_Smith_Absence_Glacier_2021-162x200.jpeg "Martin_Smith_Absence_Glacier_2021")
![Image: Izabela Pluta, [Iterative composition 1979 (pages 17-18 Australia)], 2020. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10.-Izabela-PLUTA_Iterative_composition_australia2020-200x125.jpg)
Martin Smith (AU)
I Bet You Think This Show Is About You
18 February 2021 - 06 March 2021
![Image: Martin Smith, [Speech2], 2018. Courtesy the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MARTIN-SMITH-SPEECH2-150x200.jpg)
Image: Martin Smith, Speech2, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery.
Image: Martin Smith, Speech2, 2018. Courtesy the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery.
When
18 February 2021 - 06 March 2021
Region
East
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, Accessible Toilets
This exhibition by Martin Smith presents a continuation of two, long term projects that explore the structure, construction and understanding of personal narratives through the combination of text and image.
Since 2004, Smith has been writing an auto-biographical novel where each letter is hand-cut from a photograph producing a memoir that is told visually and textually. The released letters, from the photographs, are then resurrected to form anonymous cyanotype portraits that question the influence of language in the construction of self.
![Image: Martin Smith, [Foam Core], 2018. Courtesy the artist and Sophie Gannon Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Foamcore-200x139.jpg "Foamcore")
![Image: Bec Martin, [Blurry Landscape], 2019. Courtesy the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/BecMartin-BlurryLandscape-2019-200x155.jpg)