My favourite exhibition last week was Pipilotti Rist. I found the gallery space very welcoming, as everything was spaced out and not on top of each other. I felt uncomfatble with some pieces such as the small model worlds she built, as it created another realm in which you could peer into and this made me feel like i was being invasive. It indicated to me that Pipilotti was showing an insite in to areas of life (maybe her own). The body bags scattered on the floor, the box with the bedroom in, the babies craddle also mixed with the bizzare videos of distressing movements and sounds, lead me to think there we some quite destressing scenes being staged.
I really appriciated how the exhibition was curated, i liked how you could look down on the other works through the hollow spaces in the wall, as if you were looking directly down a lense to each piece. The digital videos in particular interested me because of how they were displayed in an indiviual way, such as in the handbags, on draped fabric and small closed off spaces.
I remember being shown Pipilotti's video of 'Im not the girl who misses much' in first year and not being able to understand or apreciate it when being played in the lecture studio. I didnt even watch it all the way through but by watching it at the gallery through a hole in the celling i felt as though i could concentrate, whilst being shut off from everything. I found it very intreging and by watching it untill the very end i reaslised it was taken from a song by the beatles and i was pleasently supirsed that i enjoyed it!
One of the best pieces of work for me was the large video screening in the relaxed space. I found it very mezmirizing because of the style of video she created, using vibrant surreal colours and lots of slow merging shots. It was very much nature based and i found myself falling into a kind of trance.
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