GALLERY VISITS
It was nice to get out and about today & explore some lesser known galleries, quite by chance a came across a couple of good shows.
TinType Gallery was showing kaye Anobile ‘Simulacra’ She had made the most amazing pencil drawings on birch panel, exploring the found photograph and doppelgangers she is interested in provoking questions about identity and the other.
Aubin Gallery was next with the show smoke on the water…..“…we are reduced to an atomized pseudo-community of consumers, our sensibilities dulled by spectacle and repetition.” Grant Kester ‘Conversation Pieces: Community and Community in Modern Art (2004)’
It appears everybody is watching, or being watched, or wants to be watched. Whether it is reality TV, CCTV, YouTube, there is a sense that life, however banal, is increasingly out there, somewhere else, deferred. As Guy Debord states in Society of the Spectacle; ‘this society which eliminates geographical distance reproduces distance internally as spectacular separation.’ Domestically, as this form of escapism becomes increasingly ocular, pleasure has become voyeuristic, while escapism itself is now an aspiration to a state of being, further increasing our sense of displacement and separation.
