Hannah Morris #3

For this assignment I went to Philly, I decided to go to galleries. First I went to The Slought Foundation. French artist Tania Mouraud had a video installation entitled " I keep hearing the trains forever". I had read about this installation in the nespaper and it sounded interesting, so i wanted to check it out. I am glad that I did see this. It was like nothing else I've ever seen before.

When I first got there the gallery looked really small and like nothing special. When I walked in the lady said I had to wait behind a curtain while she turned on the audio and video. When that was turned on I walked into the gallery space. It was all dark and the sound was all around me, it was overwhelming to my senses. There were about 4 screens in the first room. The largest screen showed shaky footage of something running through a forest, there were images of a watchtower too. Another screen in the same room showed a wild boar getting shot and suffering, another screen showed a still image of a deer amongst trees, and the smallest screen was a person standing in the forest. The sounds around me were loud and haunting. After viewing all of these screens I went onto the next room which showed an upclose image of a creepy mouth, and shaky footage of a graveyard. In the last room the music was kind of more happy but because it was happy it made it creepy. On the screen it showed a view from a foggy car window driving up a hill in the forest. At the end of the road the music stopped and there was a view of a concentration camp.

This installation was about the holocost. It was a very effective installation because it really pulled me in, and was overwhelming to my eyes and ears. It was cool and creepy.

After that gallery I went to the Daiet gallery. The exhibit was entitled "Contemplative Realms". It featured work by three artists- Sky Kim, Juri Kim, and Irena Kononova. Irena Kononova work i didnt really prefer. Her body of work was called "Primeval Geographies". Her paintings were abstarctions of different types of landcapes and rocks.

I really liked Sky Kim's work. Some of the pieces I thought were really cool were 10 ft. scrolls decorated with intricate patterns done in marker. They must have taken forever to complete. The work was about human existence I think. All of the intricate patterns in this work looked really cool.

I also really liked Juri Kim's work. His work was about communication, the work involves science, logic, and emotion. The paintings were entire canvases filled with dots, each a different color scheme. In his artist statement he said painting these was a zen-type activity. The work is about losing, and remembering things. I thougth that was really cool.