RSA New Contemporaries, 2013

Annual exhibition of newly graduated Scottish artists in Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, April – May 2013

Four video installations across two galleries using a combination of recorded footage and live-feed video.
In one room three video works stood in a cluster: Face, Eye, and Step. The fourth work Hole was installed in the adjacent room beneath/through the floorboards. The short video loop had been recorded within the RSA in one of the gallery spaces downstairs.

Two white plinths are in a gallery space. They have peepholes in the top and two viewers look into the plinths and gesture to each other.
Installation photo of viewers with Face, 2012, Eye, 2012, Step, 2013, at RSA New Contemporaries 2013
A gallery space. Two white plinths are on the floor, a couple of metres apart. On the left, a woman is leaning over and looking into the smaller of the two plinths. On the right, a man in pointing into the taller plinth.
Installation photo of viewers with Face, 2012, Eye, 2012, Step, 2013, at RSA New Contemporaries 2013
A gallery space with wooden floors. A man crouches down to look into a small hole in the floor.
Installation photo of viewer with Hole, 2013, at RSA New Contemporaries 2013
Close up. Wooden floor with a small hole in it. Through the hole a little screen can be seen, the video shows peoples' legs.
Close up of Hole, 2013 at RSA New Contemporaries 2013

“Emma Reid is altogether more intimate, with tiny spy-holes in a box, which replay various things including the image of nearby feet. One of her spy-holes is also set, inconspicuously, into the floor of the next gallery.”

Duncan MacMillan, The Scotsman, Arts review: RSA New Contemporaries, Edinburgh, April 18th 2013

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