Similer to my trip to the Hayward gallery i was really inspired by the idea of descending from a particular place/ culture and how this is represented as well as other ideas within the work. This is seen in particular with Omar Victor Diop’s DIASPORA work. In the work Diop features intriguing Africans in european history, while also including contemport football references as Diop feels that feelings of tensions of discovery, glory and recognition as well as facing the challenges of being framed as ‘other’ are relatable to player playing in europe today.

The second exhibition was a series of photographs by Arpita Shah.

“Arpita Shah’s photographs portray women from the Muslim, Sikh and Hindu communities in Scotland, who practice the tradition of head covering or veiling.”

The first this that i like about the images was how simple the compotition was, the images were simple head shots of the women but allowed the different ways the women had decided to cover their head to be shown clearly and i found this help you appreciate them and was powerful. I think that the compisition of the images along side the plaque which describes which one they had on as well as they each woman, in their on words, cover their head or used a veil.

‘The Sari is a sacred tradition in my future, when i wear it i feel like its this beautiful bejeweled Purdan that wraps me up and transports me back to india’

 

For my self trip i decided to go to the Hayward Gallery on the southbank to see DRAG an exhibition about self-portraits and body politics. The first thing that i found interesting was the way the images in particular where layed out, in columns, sporadically spread out and some even in descending order as seen in S’he by Ulay:

There was another piece of which i have forgotten of which the artist had placed the art in-between 2 pieces of plastic suspending it in the air. I found this intresting not only because it allowed the item to be see the whole way round but this also plays into some initial ideas i have had about haveing the final peice descenting from the sealing to give it a physical meaning.

Another pieace I found intresting on my visit was one that wasent actuly pasrt of this paticular exhibition. It was a pice of art aratched to the side of the Queen Elizabeth hall. I though that the make up of the image was beatitiful with intricate patterns and amazing colours surrounding the people at the centre of the peace.

This work combines 2 ideas i have been thinking about; the first being this idea of the work physically decening. The secondond idea being this idea of descent from a particular place or or culture of which is represented in this work.