Unspooling- Artists & Cinema was the exhibition held at the Cornerhouse. This exhibition presents the way particular artists use film and moving images to create something artistically productive. I thought it was a genuinely interesting exhibition as I love to see how artists portray film in different ways.
One of my favourites was of Michael Borremans's black box which contained a room full of minature sized people watching a film in an exhibition. I just loved the way you could look in and be a spectator yourself but outside of this quiet little world, so you couldn't intervene.
Another one I particularly loved which I couldn't stop watching was of Stefan Zeyen's video called 'Farewell.' It was of this woman looking at the camera in a convertible car from the back while it drives off. However, it never actually drives away, the woman stays the same distance from the camera except within the short time of this film, her image corrodes until the viewer cannot see her anymore. There is something about this that caught my eye- I think it's the mystery that it holds.. why the woman is staring at the camera and why her image fades- something about it that is beautiful to me.
One piece of art that I nearly missed in the gallery was Sheena Macrae's Odyssey which was hidden around the corner on the top floor. This was a remix projection of 2001: A Space Odessey reconfigured into scans in between mirrors facing each other so that it was a never ending image of eternity. I liked how this could be played around with my shadows and seeing how many images of myself would extend into the never-ending mirrors. Beautiful.
There were many still pieces too like photographic images or paintings which looked like photographs or collages etc.There was one I couldn't stop looking at which was Elizabeth McApine's Hyena Stomp. This was a square spiral of film frames of actors who all had their eyes closed- each line being a different colour- which was really fun to look at-trying to recognise the actor or film they have been in. This was a re-rendering of a Frank Stella painting which I had never in fact heard of- so I had a look at his work and discovered that his use of colour and shapes in his works is really unique. So I will definately have a look at him again.
I really enjoyed this exhibition, there were so many pieces of art to look at, and intently as well. Most exhibitions I don't look at in too much detail, but every single piece I didn't just try to look at it, but I tried to see. The interesting factor of the way film was used really drew me in. From simple installations such as a pile of televisions with different films going on in each to projections of the skeleton onto the human body- these type of artworks really sucked me in & gave me a hallucinatory effect, like I was stuck in these artworks. This is what I want from an exhibition- to take everything on board, and try and explain to myself of what they signify. This is what I want when people look at my artworks. I think my work has a lot of mystery contained, but a lot of second guessing as well. I want people to approach my artworks the way I approached this exhibition. I see my work as being quite similar to that of Sally Golding's work- in the way that she projects images onto the body so that the person is not recognisable to us. This is what I wanted to acheive from the 'Shelter' project. I wanted to show how we shelter ourselves from society with the use of covering ourselves up- so I showed this through masks. I believe we all feel the need to cover ourselves up from life and so I provided a distortion through beauty and ugliness.
All in all I thought this exhibition to be be very influential to me, and I think I have a few ideas of where I want to go to next. My only problem now is which one to try out first?!
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| Michael Borreman's Black Box |
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| Sheena Macrae's Odyssey |
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| Elizabeth McAlpine's Hyena Stomp |
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