Tuesday 15 May 2007

Deciding how to display the work for the critique







Placing the pieces on ready made plinths, to say that they are sculpture, on the floor to see what this says, however i feel this speaks to much of ritual and then around the gallery space placed to highlight their unusualness. By placing them next to a ready made sculpture i am directly relating them and juxtaposing them to classical figurative sculpture, this has an interesting effect and evokes meaning.
I have finished waxing the clothing that i want to wax, however i would like to try an idea in the future, where i stage a paint fight getting people to wear white clothes and then wax the painted clothing into sculptures. I now need to decide how best to display the pieces, whether to show just photographs or the pieces or both. I feel i definetly want to show the sculptures and feel that they are probably strong enough to be shown on their own and without mediation. So i have spent the last couple of days experimenting with different arangements of the pieces in different sites. I feel that although they are interesting outside the gallery i want to fit them into the gallery context and to show them all in one room. At first i tried a circular formation on the floor however this spoke of rituals and gave another meaning to my piece, which i felt convoluted the concept. I need to make sure the displaying of the pieces doesnt detract from what i am wanting to say about distorting the human form. I then decided to have more fun with them, not grouping them all together, having them all around the studio/gallery space using different means of displaying for different pieces. This worked much better and the pieces retain their unusual and fun aspects by this random quirky placement.