Sam Belinfante: Aperture

Aperture 2011 (Detail)
C-Type print, 40 x 30 cm

A Bocca Chiusa, Concrete at Hayward Gallery, October 2011
Photo: Guy Archard

Aperture (2011)

C-Type prints,
Seven prints, 40 x 30cm each

Aperture is a series of seven photographs that record me performing an ascending scale. As the scale goes up I move from a hum to an 'Ah' sound, changing my mouth shape to enable the higher notes. Paralleling this movement the camera's own aperture is widened on each step of the scale; the image gradually emerges as the sound did in the initial performance.

Aperture was first shown as part of the solo show A Bocca Chiusa at Concrete, Hayward Gallery, London, in 2011.