Veronica Bailey: the blue gallery.

Sometimes the most apparently straightforward view turns out to be the most oblique. Such was the case with "2 Willow Road," Veronica Bailey's previous show, in which she presented a series of photographs of books from the library of modernist architect Erno Goldfinger that showed only the unopened volumes' edges.

Projecting an absolute blankness, Bailey's crisp and detailed images, which lent the books an uncanny presence, conjured an occult form of reading, a sort of fingertip divination. Of course this reading, like any other, requires a title as its starting point, and ...

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