Over the weekend i took a trip to these twin art galleries to have a look at some of the work of their current exhibition, "Curiosity, Art and the Pleasures of Knowing". This exhibition was easy and enjoyable to view. As we all have a curious mind, and this exhibition wonderfully displayed it. Each piece there allowed you to ponder and think freely and some pieces even made you laugh and question what was real.
Katie Patterson's "History of Darkness" contain hundreds of thousands little images on slides of the darkness. Even though each piece has been taken somewhere different and will inevitably be a different image, all you can see is black from the slide. However, on each piece she meticulously writes on the slide a little detail about it. I believe this works well as a link with my prints to be, as i am hoping that the image is barely visible.
From Pablo Bronstein's piece, "Museum Section", i want to take forward the simplicity which can be made within a large ink drawing. I find that when i produce large pieces that there has to be an increased amount of detail due to the size. However, in this piece he has stripped everything back to the bare necessities and only included what will transform the drawing. At some point i want to attempt this the same effect in my work.
Finally, it was Frances Glessner Lee's work which was later photographed by Corinne May Botz which then caught my interests and sparked off a few new ideas. After seeing her work, i felt the sudden impulse to start producing some things similar to this. Lee produced little mock up scenes of murders in order to train detectives and see how quickly they could resolve a murder from seeing a room where it had been committed. With all of these storms and flooding the land has been ripped part and destroyed. I believe that i could produce some little mock ups like these and photograph them to then work from.