Elizabeth McAlpine's Pinhole Photography Exhibition at Laura Bartlett Gallery

Elizabeth McAlpine's exhibition at Laura Bartlett Gallery features The Map of Exactitude (2011–2), comprising two projects from Vienna and London. In Vienna, black triangular card prisms, recreating studio corners, were lined with photographic paper and exposed through tiny holes bored at surface imperfections, yielding multiple-exposure prints framed to match their unfolded shapes. London works include plaster casts from a vaulted ceiling, with apertures formed by air bubbles, producing images of studio elements like paint pots and lighting fixtures. The show challenges pinhole photography's typical acceptance of random outcomes by linking sculptural objects directly to their photographic results, immersing viewers in the interplay between tactile forms and visual depth. McAlpine's approach deconstructs the medium's fatalism, though the images' standalone viability remains a question. The exhibition was reviewed in October 2012.