Exploring peckham.
Walking through Peckham on such a hot day meant many people were out, selling their items on the market and buying fruits and vegetables. It was an interesting experience and one much different from the life in Greenwich, With its run down buildings came people dressed in gold chains and bling items which contradicted their origins completely. These people were the most interesting part of Peckham, I very much wanted to document the characters that I saw however I felt almost intimidated by their confidence to take an image of them.
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Haegue Yang show at South London GalleryHer artwork ranged from precise collage to sqribbled lines to a structural piece made of bells and blind shutters on wheels. Her work relates to the idea of movement in a range of ways including the process of taking the image, cutting it out and then applying it to make another entirely new image with forms of moving patterns similar to a kaleidoscope.
The structural art piece relates to movement in the way that the piece is moved like a prop in a dance piece. |
Haegue Yang show at South London Gallery
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Camberwell Space
This artists work portrayed the idea of moving photography in the sense of taking sections of an image and moving it out of place and misplacing it.
The photograph of the hand portrays the hand gesture used in pick pocketing. The show that this image was involved in hired a professional pick pocketer to scale the gallery and slyly place these images in the pockets of those who came to view the gallery. This movement involved moving the image to different locations unnoticeably. |
The other exhibitions located in Camberwell Space, had a range of different pieces relating to movement created by 3 different artists.
My personal favourite was the movement of an image appearing on different sites. The artist placed a photograph on the wikipedia page for depression, resulting in free acmes to this one image shown worldwide for the definition of depression. After a few months the artist found a range of different pages online that had taken that image and used it for their own purposes. It was interesting how the image changed meaning in different context, with pages having different uses for the image, some covering the issue of depression, others of bipolar issues, illnesses and a gay story created by a college student. Movement is created with the travel of the image, and its movement across social media and around the globe, appearing on foreign websites.
A sense of movement is also created by the presentation of the images spreading across an entire wall in a climbing, stair effect. To effectively see the images, us as viewers of the work have to scale across the wall and walk across and look increasingly up to see the images. |
Their other pieces such as the pull apart image shows the movement of the image turning into a structural piece in a spiral motion. I created a response of this, using an image provided to me by my teacher, which I carefully cut slits in, insuring that each cut allowed the image to remain intact.
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