The first exhibition we went to see was at Ffotogallery and
featured Paul Gaffney, with a body of work called We make the path by walking, and Michal Lwanowski whose work was
called Clear of people. I found the
work all right I think I liked the work by Michal Lwaanowski more because of
the concept behind the work, the idea of following the footsteps of his father
who escaped a prisoner of war camp, made the work to me really interesting
trying to put yourself in their place and experience the place as they would
have, as well as that I feel that they were photographed in a way which help convey
that idea, what was a little somewhat disappointing to hear was that there not
in order of the route that he took, this detracts because you can’t follow them
and it doesn't seem to work the same when you know that, as well the photographer
apparently stayed in hotels between shooting and personally I would have walked
that route camping so that I get as close to the original conditions as possible
to help me connect to how they would have felt, but this could just be a personal
view on this and the artist might have felt that this kind of process wasn't
necessary.
Then with Gaffney’s work I found it interesting the idea of
documenting the path that he’s walked and what he saw as he was going along, I
all so liked the way he displayed it by placing images that he took of things
on the floor lower down and images that were looking up, high up, placing you
into the image more making them very personal, and some of the subject matter
was interesting but I didn't particularly want to spend that much time looking
at the work, it didn't grip me and make me want to explore it more, even though
some of the images were particularly stunning I saw them more as works I’d
place on a wall than pieces of work that I would by a book of so that I could
see the hole set.
Chapter
3AM: Wonder, Paranoia
and the Restless Night
I really liked some of the work at Chapter gallery, there
was a really interesting sound peace’s that lasted about 2 minuet and was
really trans like and a little bit like a Buddhist chant and was really
inspiring, as well as that there was a really interesting video peace which was
an interview with a gay man, and the video was as best I can describe it is an
eclectic light show that fitted with the video, and the mood of the interview
and the video paused with the speech and it made for a really interesting thing
to listen to, as well as that there was some really interesting photographic
peace’s that where interesting and some small canvas painting that were incredibly
detailed for things that were so small, there was also some really interesting
floating knitted things that were really strange but were interesting to look
at, and there was one really bad one that I didn’t like at all and was just
some spinning tops on some cloth with things that were meant to be starts I
think, but it didn’t really look that good or that interesting, but other than
that I enjoyed the exhibition and generally I enjoyed the trip and looking at
the art.
http://www.ffotogallery.org/forthcoming-exhibitions Image source
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