'Pop Up' Exhibition
- llatham222
- Jan 21
- 3 min read
Updated: Jan 29
Untitled Installation
I loved the challenge of pulling my ideas together for the Pop-up exhibition which took place in the Print studios just before the Christmas break. I had decided on a few key ideas that I wanted to test in the exhibition; the main ideas were the print as an object, and human presence, specifically the presence of my body in the work.
I created a 5-minute film of myself interacting with the grey frosted perspex, as if I was both trying to make tactile sense of the material and communicating with something/someone, again through touch, on the other side of the 'window'. I learned how to loop this through Q-Lab, and projected upwards through the underside of the grey perspex 'window' within the shelf I had constructed.
I had originally intended to project through the Shoji paper digital print as it would appear through the thin paper and appear to interact with the relic object in the print. However, when I showed my tutor the film, she said that she preferred it as it was; the film playing through the grey window of the shelf. I placed the Shoji digital print and a small aquatint print of a relic on the shelf with the film. I would have liked a whole day to place paper prints on and around the film to consider more the arrangement of the piece. However, I had to quickly install the cut-out print and had barely enough time to finish before the show opened!
Untitled, film (clip), 2024
I wanted to present the Relic 'egg' aquatint as an object, so I cut out the print with a scalpel and carefully blackened the cut paper edge with a charcoal pencil to make it completely solid. I liked the sharp neon edge of the yellow perspex against the black oval, so I made this into a high shelf on the wall above the video and print 'table'. It reminded me of Malevich displaying his paintings high around the edges of the room like Russian icons.
Again, I wish I had more time to refine my decisions about display. I used a metal shelf fixing, whereas I should have embedded the perspex in a block of wood so that it would jut out of the wall. Pete showed me how make the print look like it was floating out of the wall with a large screw and magnet. I wish I had thought to blacken the magnet with a permanent marker - next time!
Considering Display
Now I have started combining print, photography, film and other sculptural materials, I am really keen to continue this kind of approach to, not just exhibiting work, but creating works which converse with each other in some way.
One of my favourite artists is Ian Kiaer for the way he presents works which challenge us to find connections and dialogues between form, materiality, scale and many other visual and intellectual cues.
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