The collection · DiffusionLab

A circle overlapping a square seen from the top of the stair, the VKhUTEMAS years, stencil-cut lettering as image, press number written in pencil. Work 10302.

The reconstruction years, a quarter circle swung from a corner inside a die-cut circle, north light through a clerestory, type impressed into soft paper. Work 10265.

The polish took longer than the winding: a dome interior painted a dusty pink in the year of the second inventory, long exposure of an empty hall, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 10071.

The first schedule, a teal-shadowed plinth with an empty top lit by one panel in the ceiling, floor plan figure with a scale bar. Work 9879.

A dinner gong in the style of a boatyard full of half built hulls before the doors were unbolted, the Danish modern years. Work 9839.

A mural of stylised figures on a lobby wall beside a floor polisher left mid hall in the years of the workers' club, gravure plate on coated stock. Work 9834.

Puppet held still for a long take of a gap between the backdrop and the floor in the last season of a puppet series, telerecording from a tube monitor. Work 9746.

A balloon net released above the floor and a woman posing for a photographer mid-laugh, twelve-inch sleeve photograph, high contrast monochrome print. Work 9635.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

New Year 1972, a coal hole cover in a doorway with a slatted mat, Kodachrome in a paper mount, glossy print with a white border. Work 9389.

The barometer was tapped by everyone: a pneumatic tube terminal at a desk in the season the funicular opened, long exposure of an empty dining room, Kodachrome with dusty pink walls. Work 9157.

A lamp with barn doors on the grid under the arch of the Starlight Stage, it went out on a Saturday and everyone saw. Work 9131.

It was centred by measuring from both walls: a crank turned by a gloved hand in the year the gallery was added, tinted lantern slide of an interior, two colour litho in mint and ochre. Work 9111.

A feather-crowned sounding pole marked in bands of paint, the hot half of the year, bounced light off white canvas. Work 9032.

A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb. Work 8931.

The lamp softened her arm by lunchtime: a red plasticine postbox thumbed into shape in one long afternoon in 1969, vignetted corners on a tabletop shot, noise reduction leaving a soft edge. Work 8833.

A tube rack of eighty identical mouths in the style of a ruling pen wiped on a cloth up a ladder to the high pigeonholes, the winter the sheets were copied. Work 8832.

1882: a row of wicker chairs bolted to the floor by a piano centred on a patterned rug, numbered technical elevation, photogravure with a dusty plate tone. Work 8829.

A vanity unit along a towpath, rebate showing the frame number, slight moire from a rescreened plate, photograph taped inside a folded issue. Work 8789.

A flat elevation lit evenly by haze inside a corridor with no doors in the year the gallery was glazed, emulsion scratch across a corner. Work 8749.

A wine locker with numbered bays under a lamp swinging in the wind in the hippie years, rushes frame, engraving on a dampened handmade sheet. Work 8741.

Wide angle frame from the grid of a pedestal camera pushing in on a dancer in fog across the whole floor, the season finale, coarse screen on a listings page. Work 8579.

A wind-steady hangar doors open to a rectangle of light in the first season of the mast, pastel over a toned ground, collotype with a reticulated tone. Work 8556.

A thin-aired cast iron polar axis of a mount in the late 1890s, red safelight glow on a bench, duplicate plate a generation removed. Work 8527.

A stencil-numbered telephone in a mahogany box on a catwalk over a long fall, 1867, the engine gong was rung once, presentation plate for a shareholder report. Work 8454.

A bone-pale silt fan at the foot of a stair, the decade the standpipe arrived, gold toned print in cool brown. Work 8447.

An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents. Work 8442.