The exhibition didn’t disappoint and I recommend everyone going to see it. It is after all free so no excuses.There is some great work on show but my highlights have to be:
The Four Directions – Balls made from snail shells. It’s a long time since I stopped and looked at the beauty of a snail shell, the intricate pattern of each shell completely unique. Having spent time gardening, snails become an enemy and you forget the beauty of a snail in your anger at another plant munched.
Berry Dress – A small dress painted rigid with red paint with rosehips pinned all over it. There is still a beauty in the dried blackened rosehips that cover the main panels of this dress. I’m not sure if they ever were but I imagine this must have been spectacular if the rosehips had been ripe red and shiny.
Mnemosyne or Ice Bed – This is my favourite thing about the show. Named after the Greek goddess of memory, this piece stands in a darkened room on its own. This is a bed of ice, turned of each night and allowed to defrost, each day it forms a new and unique coating of frost on its surface. This coating is always unique, always changing in response to changes in the environment around it. A blanket of ice crystals like frost on a window.
I loved this piece; it is a truly interactive work, its form responding to the changes in its environment brought about by people coming to view it.
Links
Brighton Museum
Mnemosyne
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I want to go in the morning when the freezer bed thing has first been turned on to see what it looks like.
Did you find it as hard as I did not to Lick the frost...mmmm...the temptation!
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