Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Wound Duty

Black-and-white silver gelatin photograph in which a shadow made of many small square dots falls across the centre of the image. Three small bubbles float across the surgace, distorting the dotted pattern beneath them.
Alice Brooke, Untitled, 2026 Silver gelatin print

Dates and Opening times
Fri 5 Jun - Sun 19 Jul
Mon, Wed, Fri, Sat, 9am-5pm

Thurs and Tues, 9am - 8pm

Closed Sun
Venue

The Mitchell Library, 201 North Street, G3 7DN

Participants
Alice Brooke
Supported by

Glasgow International; Creative Scotland

Accessiblity
Level Access, Step Free: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to upper floors
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair accessible toilet
Refreshments: There is a café or somewhere you can purchase refreshments
Baby Change: The venue has baby changing facilities
Bike Rack: There is cycle parking at the venue

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.