Final installation

When the time came for the final installation, I have to admit that pinning down what to do was difficult. I had read and looked into so many other artists, and I had too many ideas to the extent that I did not know what was practical and what was not. The field seems so limitless and full of possibility that simply anything is possible; and then it becomes necessary to draw a line between honest expression and just seeing what you can get away with.

Due to my work on art acknowledge, I was already working on the concept of text installations. I briefly considered simply combining my text installation for the other course with this one - but I realised I wanted to experiment with objects and assemblage - however little I could with this installation, even if I still play around with a similar concept with the text.

I worked with two classmates and we decided to combine text with objects to create our installation. We wanted a larger space that led a viewer to feel somewhat as if they were roaming around in the open, and so we chose a terrace in a house in SFS.

The text said, "What is behind the image is concealed". We took objects such as a chair, an old television, a bicycle, a water cooler, and so on, to the terrace, and covered them completely with white cloth. We placed these objects around the terrace in such a way that one could walk through them and there was no decisive pattern, even if the objects could vaguely be recognised through the sheets. The objects were all things that facilitated lifestyle - at one point it felt as though we were transporting a living room to the terrace. The text was placed on two opposite walls. These are images from the installation:

We invited a few people that we saw on the street to tell us what they think. As it seemed completely out of context, they didn't entirely understand what we tried to do, but it was still enjoyable. 

This was our concept note: 

This installation attempts to play with the concept of sight and image. Every setting before our eyes can be considered an image, a snapshot, a photograph existing in that moment in which we see it. Our every day lives exist in the form of memories and those memories are retrieved from our visuals, in the form of pictures. Yet what is truly to be considered is perhaps invisible - it is beyond the visual. The image often is simply a veil, behind which something of importance may lie.

Here we try to compress a lifestyle underneath white sheets; every day objects that perhaps sum up a day in the human experience - an experience hidden by white. The image is a visual, but the visual is not clearly recognisable. 

This installation addresses one to look at living as an image, and then imply that there lies an entirely different meaning beyond that image existing as a realm we may explore. The realm that is concealed behind the image.