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Tate Britain Reflections
This painting is an oil painting by Francis Bacon that I saw at the Tate Britain Art Gallery. I was very struck by the painting's depiction of death and carnage. It also influenced my work for the second series of UNIT 1. These three paintings use the colour red to express the fear in people's hearts. They also express very strongly the struggle and pain of the people in times of war. What inspired me the most was the use of a lot of red in the paintings. It is as if there is an outburst of power, a painful fear that still makes people feel desperate and helpless.
This painting is also one that influenced me very deeply. The whole picture reveals a tense and eerie atmosphere. The artist expresses the intimate relationship between the man and the woman in the picture in a seemingly absurd way. But at the same time, the use of the element of flesh in the whole picture is abrupt and absurd, as if to suggest that the relationship is carnal and obscure.
This is Hatoum's video So Much i want to say, which features a close-up of the artist's face with a pair of male hands gagging her, preventing her from speaking. At the same time the soundtrack repeats the lyrics of the title over and over again. A physical and visual barrier seems to be formed between the artist and the viewer. This created an invisible sense of oppression as I watched this work. It felt as if there were in some way invisible hands in reality preventing her from being seen, heard or understood. By showing the suppressed images it exposes the oppression she was under.
AUDITORIUM north gallery reflection
The name of the exhibition is "Lazarus". Lazarus is also a biblical figure who rose from the dead, which the artist uses as a metaphor. The works in the exhibition are 100 sewing machines over 50 years of age, which - when switched on by an electric current - run and stop in a continuous cycle.
White Cube gallery
This exhibition, which I saw in 2020, is called Superstrings, Runes, The Norns, Gordian Knot. the title of the exhibition is obscure, yet rich in meaning, with a constant undercurrent that keeps the viewer's mind occupied for a long time. It is clear that he is still, as ever, exploring the unknown in anticipation of finding what he believes to be a theory to explain the world. In his current work, he draws on the central concept of string theory, a complex scientific model that attempts to explain the fundamental relationships of matter. This theory also has some relevance to the project I have been trying to do.
ZENG
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