Whitechaple Gallery

I went to Whitechaple gallery in the hope of catching anything left that might have been of Gillian Wearing's work. It turns out I was about a month late! I had a look round anyway, incase there was anything useful or of point to my project. There was a lot of sound installations, light and also video. Here are the ones I found most interesting:

"Boys and Sculpture" 2012
Eva Rothschild
This was a video art piece showing some spindly sculptures in an open, blank room. One by one they let boys in from the ages of 8 to 12 (guess). It got to about 8 boys in total. It showed time passing and the boys getting increasingly frustrated and bored until they started playing round and witht he sculptures and then suddenly, once one broke, they annihilated the rest. It was quite funny to watch. This work shows the effectiveness of 'random' responses from non-actors and how simplicity can work.

The Bloomberg Commission: "The Past Was A Mirage I'd Left Far Behind"

Josiah McElhenny

"Reflection, light and transparency are defining themes of Modernism."

Construction of severn sculptural screens made from mirrored glass, wood and projection cloth. The intention is to refract any image triple times, creating depth and expanding and warping the image. Contributing artists were asked to just create purely abstract films of their own personal history. It was interesting to see the visual effects and methods of producing such things, and considering the possibilites of using these myself.