- Venue
- Derby Museum and Art Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, February 4, 2012
- Ends
- Sunday, June 10, 2012
- Address
- The Strand Derby DE1 1BR
- Location
- East Midlands
Derby Museum and Art Gallery launches a curious new collection of audience emotions. 1,000 visitor responses to an intriguing set of eight questions have formed the basis of a new body of work by artists Stephen Carley and Anna Mawby. Working in direct response to the visitor text, quotes of sadness have been depicted by watery tears dripping slowly through punctured holes in plastic bottles whilst large placards lay prone on the floor, silently shouting slogans of anger. Grains of salt have shaped themselves into words of desire beside a mirror, reflecting your fear in its dusty surface. Both artists use text within their practice and are focused on process and material. Can You Hear Me Now? is curated by Andrea Hadley-Johnson. The concept was inspired by the recent scandals within investigative journalism sitting in sharp contrast with social media outpourings of deeply personal information; this apparent need to be heard and need to expose has become a potent and emotive form of communication.
