Wound Duty

Wound Duty presents photographic work by Alice Brooke exhibited throughout Glasgow’s Mitchell Library. The exhibition centres on a new series of silver gelatin prints produced through experimental darkroom processes, which imagines the smartphone as both wound and portal.

In the darkroom, the contents of the artist’s smartphone become both subject and medium. The phone is pressed directly onto photographic paper or inserted into a customised enlarger, where it functions simultaneously as light source and negative, becoming a physical component of the photographic apparatus.

Wound Duty examines the smartphone, held close to the body and fused with daily ritual, as a site through which external systems circulate, internal states are regulated, and expressions of selfhood are shaped.