I WENT TO AN EXHIBIT RECENTLY AT THE IKON GALLERY IN TOWN AS IT WAS RECOMENDED TO ME BY ONE OF MY TEACHERS AS THERE WAS A SUICIDE EXHIBITION ON WHICH WOULD HELP ME GATHER INSPIRATION FOR MY GARMENT HOWEVER AS I ENTERED I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING AROUND THE 1ST FLOOR AT THE 'SHOCKED INTO ABSTRACTATION' EXHIBIT WHICH I FOUND FASCINATING. THIS EXHIBIT CONSISTED OF A BURNT CAR, SOME CASSETTE TAPES, TAPE ARRANGED ON VARIOUS CANVAS'S AND A WALL COVERED IN SPLATTERED PAINT.OF COURSE THERE WAS A MEANING TO EACH OF THESE PIECES HOWEVER. AS I READ THROUGH THE ARTIST'S BOOK I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING AT THESE PIECES IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT. FOR INSTANCE THE CAR WAS NO MORE THAN A CAR 'THAT HAS BEEN BURNT DOWN TO A DYSFUNCTIONAL CARCASS AND THAT HAS BEEN NAMED ABSTRACT' MATIAS ALSO SAID THAT 'THE WHOLE POINT WAS TAKING AN OBJECT THAT WOULD IMMEDIATELY HAVE ALL KINDS OF DRAMATIC POLITICAL CONNOTATIONS AND THEN EMPTYING IT OG ALL SUCH THINGS, ENDING UP WITH WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY A RATHER VAPID FORMAL GESTURE' - THIS WAS ESSENTIALLY HOW I FELT ABOUT MY VOODOO DOLLS, HOW THEY WERE BASICALLY NOTHING MORE THAN A HAIR MOULD OF A WHAT WAS FORMALLY A PLASTIC DOLL HOWEVER STRIPPED TO A CAST IT COULD BE INTERPRETED IN SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS.
I LOVE IT HOW ALL HIS WORK MAKES YOU QUESTION WHAT HIS MOTIVE OR REASONING WAS TO CREATE IT AND LAY IT OUT IN THE WAY THAT HE HAS, APPARENTLY HELF HEARTEDNESS IS THE CORE PART OF HIS PRODUCTION, HE WOULD LEAVE THE OBJECTS IN THE WAY THE MOVERS LEFT THEM TO ADD TO THE ABSTRACT NATURE OF THE PIECES WHICH I PERSONALLY THINK IS REALLY CLEVER AS EACH PIECE DOSEN'T LOOK TO THOUGHT OUT.
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