I like this angle because to be totally honest something didn’t sit right with me but I couldn’t put my finger on it. I was taken more by the idea itself.
I’m starting to think it was the Gallery venue and this adds to it wasn’t rebellious enough. Does it have to be this way? Other parts of the show made me feel empty. Breaking down blockbuster art shows.
I haven’t seen the work, so have no basis or right to comment specifically. It was just a ‘smell’. I’ve been doing this a long time. And in the end it’s what the work really is and does, not what it’s about, that flies. Working with the realities and baggage of the context should be a problem. But finding a way to talk about something, isn’t the same as finding a way to manifest and do what you’re talking about…
That middle sentence should have read ‘working with the realities and baggage of the context shouldn’t be a problem’…
This is also why people should view it. For me the idea was more interesting and important than the actual work itself but then without it, it doesn’t have meaning. It’s in the public domain and that gave me a little bit of hope.
This is why we #Artstr
