Fierman and Marinaro are pleased to present Soft proof, a new exhibition by Cortney Andrews. The exhibition brings together photographs and mixed-media works in which cameras, screens, and images become stand-ins for the body.

Throughout the exhibition, the camera appears as an active structure that frames and contains. This framing echoes across the works — in viewfinders, an iPad, wallpaper edges, and a garment rack. Bodies appear caught within these structures or replaced by them entirely, creating a feedback loop in which subject and apparatus exchange roles.

The body appears in fragments, as reflections in mirrors, views through ground glass, and re-photographed images, suspended between surfaces and apertures. In one photograph, Double exposure, an iPad displays an exchange of erotic self-images between two people, so that desire itself circulates through the photograph as a proxy body, sent and returned across distance.

The exhibition’s title refers to the photographic proof: a preliminary print used to evaluate exposure, color, and detail before final production. A soft proof exists in a provisional state — adjustable, correctable, not yet fixed. Andrews extends this technical term into a metaphor for perception itself, where seeing is mediated and vulnerable to distortion.

In Soft proof, Andrews positions photography as a site of pressure — distinctions between subject and apparatus collapse, suggesting a space in which looking is a form of capture and the image a kind of cage.