Elaine (Yi Zhang) 's Visual Archive

Monday, 6 February 2012

Mirror Wall at sattchi gallery by Jeppe Hein

This work is really amazing and the interactive effect attracts a lot viewers. Something similar happens when visitors get close to Mirror Wall . What at first appears to be a large but straightforward mirror begins to move slightly when approached. Viewing one’s vibrating reflection in it and the accompanying distorted backdrop of the gallery space creates a sense of dizziness and a strange feeling of separation from the familiar. It prompts us instinctively to re-calibrate our spatial awareness and our relationship to what we see and where we are.

Interaction design and participation design are the special areas which I want to get more research, and really want to reflect in my own work. My essay also pay attentation to this area. That work is a good example for my research.

The Start of My Main Project

The start point of my main project focuses on urbanites' surface emotion which is ostensible and unreal. In view of existing situation of modern people, I want to explore the idea of mentality of urbanites, and pay attention to the strange and lonesome mind which are cased by the tremendous work pressure.

I think that a lot of people ignore what they want, lose happiness and miss their emotion. In addition, they use an invisible mask to conceal their emotion in this complex and stressful social condition. As a result, i uesd mask to carry on an installation. In the progress, I broke the "surface mask", strung and hang up them.

The chips of the masks look sad and vacuous in the swinging state. In the first step, i just did one mask, but i think about to create the installation by 50 masks or more than this. After that i also think about to take a vedio which refers to the city life, and then use projection to show the images in the masks.

That's some starting ideas of my main project in the first step, I will spend more time to develop it and try to use more ways to do the work.

Sunday, 5 February 2012

The ideas, sketch of "human mask"

Thursday, 2 February 2012

ALEXANDRA BIRCKEN

I am interested in this artist's work very much because of the beautuful details. She gave the used or dumped stuff a new life in those installations.

Bircken creates assemblages featuring everyday ephemera like wood, knitted fragments, concrete, cloth, wax, screws, wire & steel.Her work has strong references to traditional craft practices and to the natural world, from which she sources her materials.She studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

Alexandra Bircken’s unmonumental stretcher frame sculptures are informed by her background in fashion design and interest in the radical aspects of handmade culture. A fragmentary array of irregular objects and organic shapes, often coloured by the artist, is hung and displayed on strings and aluminium rods.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/alexandra_bircken.htm