Here’s looking at you, kid

Strelnikov’s Glasses and Other Stories is an exhibition at prominent Manchester cultural centre, Home. The show is the third project to be curated by the Society of Spectacles, a collective of artists interested in the cultural role played by eyewear, and specifically looks at the history of glasses in cinema.

Twenty-four artists, designers and film makers have contributed works in the format of a 27” x 40” film poster that respond to a pair of glasses in a film. Some of the artists collaborated with specialist frame makers General Eyewear, which supplies bespoke glasses to the film industry, on their pieces.