Plextol

Transfer medium with mixed media.

GESAMTKUNSTWERK

'GESAMTKUNSTWERK: New Art from Germany' is the current exhibition showing at the Saatchi Gallery. I found it hugely pleasing, an emphasis on playfulness was coherently displayed via the chosen art works, refreshing to be confronted with an engaged enjoyment of basic materials rather than the focus lying on the concepts of the works.
I was able to draw many parallels between the show and my own practice, which is an enquiry and continual exploration of human interaction with materials- an emphasis upon the process and not the product. Coming away from the exhibition I wondered to myself how many artists 'play' or experiment so freely without feeling the need to explain their reasons for doing so.
These are a few images of the works and their details that caught my eye.

Isa Genzken

 
 
 
 Ida Ekblad


 Alexandra Bircken

The Feminine Psychology

These are images from work I produced recently for an exhibition at uni, titled 'XX.' It was a group response to our seminars on Freud and Psychoanalysis. We were an all-female group and so decided to work from this similarity, beginning with an enquiry into how theories of the female psychology relate to our individual practices.
Debates arising included Freud's 'penis envy', the emphasis of the female in fetishism and more objectively the question and definition of gender.
At the beginning of my process I contemplated the power of female sexuality- a symbol of lust and beauty- however also its vulnerability and fragility. This led to a series of photographic works shown below. Rather than conveying the contrast between such characteristics, I found they steered towards the vulnerable and delicate aspects perhaps due to the model's own reaction to exposure.

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