Australian artist Vivienne Tétaz brings a new series of haunting large-scale photographic works to London this spring with Resort, warehouse and the nation state, now showing at La Galerina.
Drawing inspiration from The Conversation by Francis Ford Coppola, the exhibition explores surveillance, exposure and the uneasy tension between visibility and privacy.
The works were created using a large-format pinhole camera built by the artist herself, fitted with a custom-made zone plate. Photographed on Phillip Island, Australia, the images depict vacant, carefully composed interiors — spaces suspended in anticipation, ordered yet unsettling, intimate yet emotionally distant.
Tétaz’s analogue process is central to the exhibition’s atmosphere. Just as meaning gradually emerges in the darkroom, the photographs reveal fragments of narrative without ever fully resolving them, inviting viewers to consider what remains hidden, overheard or psychologically projected.
The exhibition also draws on writer Sarah Hamill’s reflections on “abstract spaces” and the idea of artworks as “little traps” — constructed environments shaped as much by absence as by presence.
Through these meditative and enigmatic works, Tétaz examines the emotional architecture of interiors, image-making and observation itself.