We discussed when we would like to set up an exhibition, and decided with the presentations coming up in November, we would be best to plan for the new year. We decided beginning of January as this gave us enough time to prepare for it, but also enough time before our Submission deadline to write up our experiences and also make continued work.
We also have now decided we would like to hold the exhibition in one of the landings as this is where it will be seen by the most people. We also like the shape of the area better as it resembles more of a white cube space, where you can stand in the centre and view most of the work. Last year, when doing an exhibition in Project Space 4 (one of the corridors) we found it was good when exhibiting various different artists work, however if they were all by the same artist(s) you could not really look at the exhibition as a whole and consider how each piece interlinks as they are spread out over a very narrow space.
We have come up with a few various ideas. Firstly we considered making our own individual work to exhibit, then coming together to make one collaborative piece in response to our works. Secondly, we thought about making just one large scale piece to put up. Finally, (and I think this is what we both think would work best) we could make a variety of collaborative pieces and exhibit them all in the project space.
We decided to go for Project Space 3 as it is more of a square shaped space, and is slightly smaller than Project Space 1. We feel that our pieces will be a development of work rather than completely finished pieces, therefore felt PS1 possibly has more of an importance to it, and is for more finished and official exhibitions. Whereas ours may be more of an idea in progress sort of thing.
Eleanor's description of her work:
discovering the sublime and aesthetics in the movement of the human body. And how the sublime has the power to pull us apart and destroy us. Using photography and paint. The sublime is this huge vast entity that allows us to survive in it, but also has the power to completely obliterate us. How we fit into it, and how that shapes us as human beings. Subconscious.
A description of my work at the moment:
How society and the media (looking into the idea of aesthetics and beauty) distorts us as human beings and makes us distort ourselves. I am also interested in the human body as a subject for work, as well as portraiture. I have previously experimented with using the movement of my body to create a piece, and also considering the meaning of the body of the paint, and how this relates to my body. Consciously trying to fit in, but subconsciously having to distort who we truly are.
So we are both looking at ideas of aesthetics, both interested in the human body and we both use paint as our preferred medium. I also really like how our idea of using physical distortion of images can replicate the theoretical distortion that things like the sublime and society can do to us. I feel it is such a unique idea that it is really special that we have come together to create some collaborative pieces. Interesting how we are looking at the same subject but speaks to us in different ways.
We have written a preliminary explanation of our exhibition which we need to send to Carl for approval for the exhibition.
The meaning behind the work for the exhibition is using paint and photography to explore ways of distorting the human body, both physically and metaphorically, through considering critical ideas such as aesthetics and the sublime. For the exhibition there will be a selection of our individual works, accompanied by a collaborative piece. The aim of our exhibition is....
This is what we have to start with, and will finish it before sending on to Carl.
