Third Year: Art, destruction, memories and ephemera

As part of my contextual research and influences, I have looked into the work of Boltanski, particularly the way in which black and white photographs have been displayed to evoke specific emotional responses to the viewer.  Narratives within Boltanski’s work are alluded to, yet these are often not factually correct, and instead become a fictional story created by his placement and selection of images, and titles.  I am interested in the narratives created, as well as the way photographs have been used to form an installation.   His works trace the lives of lost and forgotten people, and feel almost like a memorial, yet sometimes the photographs are taken from newspapers and this creates a sense of unspecialised mourning, an atmosphere evoking sadness yet not focussing on the story of a specific individual’s life.