As a part of my research, I want to include some of the artists that I looked. Each work is similar to what my style of photography is, but with a different feeling etc.
Maisie Cousins and her series Grass, peonie, bum. This series could be connected to my last tries of photography I did today in my bathroom, but mine is for now in black and white version and is not as revealing as Cousin’s works are in this series.
Bill Viola and his series Nantes. I was recommended this artist by my lecturer Jane Watts today as the video projection is a really emotional artwork.
Bill Viola has been mentioned as the leading artist in the establishment of video as a form of contemporary art. His work over the years consists of architectural video installations, videotapes, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces, and works for television broadcast. His work is known for the exploration of the phenomena of sense perception as an avenue to self-knowledge. It focuses on universal human experiences: death, birth, the unfolding of consciousness.
In the following weeks, final fine art students have to come up with an idea to exhibit in a space thats surrounded by our studios.
My ideas
– create a performace, still image, text and a painting responding to the theme of emotion.
(this is a still image of a possible moving performance, where I will be changing emotions throughout the video)
There are few ideas that are in my head. I want to connect a little bit to the ideas of Jenny Holzer. I want to create a space with many artworks connected to one another like she tends to do herself. I visited one of London’s galleries, where her works of a sign, a bench and a text all connected the room together (can’t find the picture at the moment, will add later if its found again).
JENNY HOLZER
Jenny Holzer is an American neo-conceptual artist. The main focus of her practice is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. Her work consists of installations, advertising billboards, projections on buildings and other structures and illuminated displays. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jenny-holzer-1307
Although I am not a big fan of her paintings, I found my love for her light installations that have been in the Tate modern till 2019.
These are some of my favourites from Artist Rooms. Dont really know the titles, but it all fell under her webpage folder titled LEDS.
This work titled New Corner 2011 belongs to one of my favourites as well. Dont really know the 100% reason, but I could stare at it (maybe because of the colours) for ages.
https://projects.jennyholzer.com/LEDs/new-corner-2011
Many ideas, many possibilities
These are the ideas that came out of my tutorial with Jane Watts. I will consider working more openly without being stuck onto one specific idea or placement of my works in the studio space/gallery room.
In the past week, I have worked on my new series called Conflict. The idea is to connect the word ‘conflict’ to the real conversations. My idea to create series which highlights the conflict between the person and their emotions i.e. conflict between One self (selflove, selfcritique, etc.)
For now, I created two pictures, using my phone, tripod and myself that are responding to the conflict of self love. In the first picture with the words ,,The hard part is to let go of something that is holding onto you” and the second one answering the previous scene with words ,,It stares at you when you don’t”.
And here are the original pictures to see the difference with using a filter/colour correction and editing.
: I love that I already got some feedback to these pictures. My friend asked me if it connects to my past relationship and another friend asked me if it connected to a body positivity theme. …
At the start of my blog, I want to talk a bit about my whole pactice at the moment and what my main aims are.
My practice at the moment is now focusing on ‘performance’. The reason to why it’s in quotation marks is because my performace is in still images, leading the audience’s focus on the fact that the work presented are photographs, still images, motionless pictures. What Im trying to achieve is to create motion in those still images.
Inspiration: Gregory Crewdson and Sarah Bahbah
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The reason for me to use these two artists as the inspiration is because I was always mesmerised by their use of cinematic approach to their work. Maybe the biggest difference between my work and their is the focus on detail. It is also something that I want to focus more on, because right now Im working mostly with what I have at the moment.
GREGORY CREWDSON
Crewdson is a American artist whose work have entered the world of Hitchcock, David Lynch and paintings of Edward Hopper. The reason for it was his work’s visual silent psychological interzone between the everyday and the uncanny. Crewdson usually works with a large team and plans each image with big attention to detail, light, colour and production design with the aim to create dreamlike scenes infused with mystery and suspense. With attention put on not creating a signifiers of identifiable sites and moments, Crewson creates a world outside time.
https://gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson/
