‘There’s knowledge within the frame only I am privy to. Do I tell you my secrets?’ Lunar New Year narrates a series of mostly-analogue portraits made by the artist on a single day in New York City. In Henry-Smith’s audio description, the eye is located in the solar plexus and the camera is a conductor, facilitating the flow of relationships. Narration, image description, poetry, title cards and captions move among the images, in devotion to an expanded sensorium and a cinema of the everyday.
S*an D. Henry-Smith lives and works in Amsterdam. They received their MFA from the Sandberg Instituut in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include 'tremor low' at ROZENSTRAAT in Amsterdam (2023) and 'in awe of geometry & mornings' at White Columns in New York (2021). Their book Wild Peach (2020), was published by Futurepoem, and shortlisted for the PEN Open Book Award, and they are the author of two chapbooks: Body Text (2016) and Flotsam Suite: A Strange & Precarious Life, or How We Chronicled the Little Disasters & I Won’t Leave the Dance Floor Til It’s Out of My System (2019). They have received awards and fellowships from Amsterdam Fonds voor de kunst (2023), the Fulbright Program (2020), The Poetry Project (2019), and Poets House (2017), among others.