The first work I saw was the clockwork for oracles (above). Done in 2011, this work consists of 52 windows, representing the 52 weeks of the year. The video after this paragraph will explain it a lot better than I can because it's the artist himself explaining it. As I walked down the stairs into the gallery, it was so quiet (I was the one of the first few in the gallery that day) and I stopped to just stare at my reflection in the window. I didn't want to stop. It was just something about the reflection and the windows that made me stop. Stop and think. I don't even remember what I was thinking about. I just remember staring, captured in the reflection of myself. On hindsight, it was a pretty drawing experience. And that frightened me a little. But that was only just the beginning. There was another exhibit by the same artist that was even more overwhelming. More on that after the video.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8DPTBOrFQ]
The second exhibit that wowed me was actually not one, but three different works put together. They are:
what do you want? 2002 wood, mirror, plaster, speakers, sound if there were anywhere by desert. wednesday 2000 fibreglass, paint, clothing all MOMENTS stop here and together we become every memory that has every been 2002 plexiglass (below)
This one was just..eerie. Like, zomg. I have a phobia of clowns and that didn't do anything other than make it worse. Although these works were individual works, they blended and added to each other to create a whole new experience and to send a clear message about a relationship that is filled with loneliness, doubt and miscommunication. I felt that the exhibit was collapsing in on itself and that is, in my pinion, what the relationship of mistrust and loneliness would unavoidably lead to.
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