Yesterday I visited Tate St Ives to participate in Young@Tate; an event for people aged 15-25, created by the Tate Collective. The collective had set up a number of activities to participate in throughout the gallery, including making postcards, surreal photography, and creating journeys through the gallery space. I was hoping to find out about how to get involved with the Collective group, as they are a key part in organising events at the Tate and in the local area, in addition to receiving training and opportunities to work with artists. https://circuit.tate.org.uk/2014/11/felix-reviews-november-youngtate/ The exhibition in the gallery; The Modern Lens was a collection of international photography from the 1920s through to the 1960s. I found that the scale and presentation of some of the photographs were particularly compelling, for example, the intimacy of the small photo prints in the ‘Objects Reacting Poetically’ series. By window mounting such small images it gave the image a sense of depth in which the viewer had to become involved in in order to see the photograph. In keeping with this series by surrealists Perriand, Jeanneret and Leger, I was also inspired by the encounters that the surrealists made with objects and architecture; photography was used to tap into the unconscious by disrupting the everyday. This relates to the methods that I am currently exploring through drawing, and looking into my personal interpretation of the everyday. ‘Lightplay Black White Grey’, a 16mm short film by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was a compelling composition of shadows created by his ‘light space modulator’; a kinetic sculpture. The monochromatic shapes overlap and move in and out of focus. It relates closely to the IMOOS created by Bryan Wynter which I have been researching. Light, movement, shadows. This use of kinetic energy and the capturing of a process in video and still image appeals to me and I want to explore how this could be incorporated into my own working practice.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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