This video presents 5 people who all begin with very calm, emotionless expressions, which slowly erupt into different powerful emotions, then calm down to end as they begun. The video is greatly slowed down so that, in all it lasts around 15 minutes, when the actual shoot would have only been a couple of minute long, at that. This has made me think about the use of expressions in my work - and I will explore Viola's work further.
The next gallery was Paradise Row, exhibiting the photographic work of Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin in People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground. These were all black and white photos, all the same size, lined up against a wall, apart from three larger ones. The smaller were all printed on paper with a white circular outline.
The images were all in clear, thin plastic boxes that essentially created a frame but without a frame. So they're in a glass display box but it is almost flat. The images, as they are all in a line, are so similar from afar but as you get closer it becomes clear that they are all so different.
The circular outline of the smaller pieces, makes you want to know what is happening outside of the frame, all these images have the same shape to adhere to yet they are all so different that they make the shape different each time. How can I use this in my work - the idea of framing but without a frame? Placing the image behind glass for an almost formalization but without a frame to distract from the work itself.
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