Today I visited Walsall Gallery (The New Art Gallery Walsall) and I saw a piece of work called Bookworm (at least a still), on further investigation I found it was a short film by Simon Raven and Film/Performance artist, Within this piece he had taken the saying/name bookworm and actually embodied it. This has really spurred my interest and I will defiantly look into it more I have been thinking about English sayings and what would happen if I acted upon them?
sayings like:
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
The squeaking wheel gets the grease
The tide must be taken when it comes
There is safety in numbers
They also serve who only stand and wait
Two heads are better than one
People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
A stitch in time saves nine
Over all though the exhibition was very thought provoking and in general pulled me in.
The Mat Collishaw exhibition was brilliant, All things Fall, 2014. (seen above) was fantastic, it was just a shame I was not able to see it in Rome in complete context. This spinning model gives us the illusion under strobe that the figurines are moving, and portrays a real scene of horror and blood thirst, but due to the fantastical nature of the sculpture/installation you are unable to move away and are drawn in, ‘what can I see next?’
