Louise Bourgeois and Boris Mikhailov at Tate Modern – July 2016
Red has already featured in my work as I mentioned in my blog on 13 July. It was made even more significant when I visited Tate Modern during the summer break. For Louise Bourgeois ‘red’ translated as fear; she felt vulnerable and remained fearful of many things throughout her life.
For me red, is the colour of connections and the idea of making contact with my natural family that I know a little about, but feel I relate to in many ways because of certain features in our characters. Red also links me with another part of my family that I know exists, but who don’t know (I assume) anything about me.
I have added some images of some experimental work which feature the colour ‘red’ that signify loss, ties that have been severed and truths that often lay hidden…
There was also an exhibition of Boris Mikhailov’s powerful images entitled ‘Red’. A diverse group of eighty-four colour photographs taken between 1968 and 1975 – every one of the images containing the colour red. See http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/mikhailov-red-t13358
