Sunday, 22 March 2009

Perhaps noting, perhaps something( Making the ivisible apparent)



This exhibition, presented at Leeds Met university Gallery presented different artists who approach space and how the audience relates to that space and juxtaposes an argument. Cornelia Parkers, Neither from Nor Towards, consists of the brocks of an eroding house, hanging on wires in suspended animation. Its original from lost, the bricks that once were the foundations of a home; now displayed in a new structure. A structure lost in time and space. For me I enjoyed parts of this work, I think the idea of the history and once was being display in such way the almost captures it in a freeze is quite poetic and lyrical to the audience. However what left me with doubts was the structure that held the piece together was so apparent in appearance of a framed metal structure holding all the wires, I felt this took part of the essence away of the subjects. There were artists such as Rachel Whitread, who is famously known for her negative space, but who work struck me most was that’s of Chris Wrights. Within a blackout space he had arranged spotlights in a round formation to all focus on one point. Entitled' This is the Place, the spotlights shine intensely on an empty space. There is nothing in this space, so why as Wright put it in the spot light, or was their something; a memory, an event, the prediction of something. Once again theis argument of space brings to light and what it is saying to the audience. Playing with the audiences mind as to what a space is for, how is occupied, and who by, why have they made the audience come into this space, or present such a space in this way?

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