FMP Updates: Gallery Visits

The exhibitions I went to today were Performing For The Camera (Tate Modern) and States Of Mind (Wellcome Collection, Euston).

Admittedly both of these exhibitions were very interesting, although they've really done little to inspire me to generate more interesting ideas. Much of the scenarios depicted in Performing For The Camera - my favourites being Leap Into The Void and Anthropometry Of The Blue Period - are very extreme and have been edited well, but I feel like these scenarios are a bit too over-the-top for the message that I'm trying to get across. I do like the way that lighting and shadow were powerfully incorporated into much of the photos, Babette Mangolte's work most notably. I also found Eikoh Hosoe's Kamaitachi and Dance Experience very creative and expressive in the way that he used very minimal elements to achieve a maximum impact. Despite this, I felt in the end that it was a bit too much, but I will try to generate more ideas from it tomorrow.

As its title suggests, the second exhibition I went to really did delve in to the state of the mind. I also liked the style of Louis Dagner's thought photographs. They had a very unique process behind them (pressing unexposed photo plates to a victim's subject's forehead which transmitted images from their minds) which I have a little bit of trouble understanding since Science is my weakest subject, but the idea was cool and has started inspiring me on how to handle the cinematography.