'Exposed'

Maxwell: I went to see an exhibition at the Tate Modern a few months back in October. The show was called 'Exposed' and it was labelled as "the most intrusive art exhibition Tate Modern has ever held." Although it may seem to not link perfectly to our initial idea I think ideas can be drawm from it. It basically worked with the idea of an unseen photographer capturing shots of people without their knowledge. Throughout the 250 photographs the viewer is exposed to a wide ranging series of snaps going from very amusing to brutally shocking.

The show looks into the idea of surveillance and how the world seems to be obsessed with it these days. I read that England is the most surveyed country in the world, through means of CCTV, youtube and camera phones for example.  It also raises a constant question in the viewers mind for everyday life as to who's looking at them and how are they looking.

I think the underlying point of this exhibition was that for me I felt like I was looking at images that i'm simply not supposed to be seeing. As a result I felt very uncomfortable and even helpless in some cases in the knowledge that i'm distant from what's happening in some of the photographs. The pictures in this exhibition wildly range from intruding on people in their most private times to shocking photos of people about to commit suicide.

The initial idea for our project was looking into the idea of a twisted funhouse, a lot of the photographs in the 'Exposed' exhibition were most definietly twisted. We could look for L5/ L6 art that actually makes the viewer react in a strong way. Maybe we can look into ways to present the pieces and alter the lighting aswell. For example we could almost create our own kind of house structure where we literally assemble the art in such a way that you can walk through a gap and literally be surrounded by walls of work. Through this they're not just looking at the work they're actually inside the work.

Just a thought.

Maxwell.

:)

Entrance to the exhibition.

The night watch ... Stranger No 1 by Shizuka Yokomizo