TATE MODERN
On the first stop on the trip, we visitied the Tate Modern Gallery, where we observed many photographs, sculptures and paintings in numerous rooms such as; States of Flux, Poetry and Dreams and Documentary. The aim of this trip was to find external artists to respond to for our assignment of constructed imagery. I found the artist Shikanosuke Yagaki's 'street lamp with shadow' 1930-1939 interesting because of the composition and lighting of the photograph.
"Shikanosuke Yagaki was an active member of many of the amateur photography clubs flourishing in Japan in the 1930s, including the Sanwa Bank Photo Club, the Karashishi-kai Photo Group, and the Kyoto Leica Club and his work was widely exhibited. Despite a lack of professional training, Yagaki developed a sophisticated style which combined the influence of European modernism with typical Japanese subjects. His work shows a great understanding of the camera’s potential, playing with movement, perspective, light and shadow."
In the second room we visited was "State's of Flux", where I found a second artist I was interested in. Sanja Ivekovic, born in Croatia in 1949, Ivekovic's work 'Double Life' uses images from a magazine alongside a photograph. Her work depicts the impact of the media on women's lives and how it affects them internally as well as externally.
"In each of these works an image from a women’s fashion magazine is framed alongside a photograph of the artist. Her actions and poses appear to mimic those in the found magazine pages, but the photographs are in fact pictures that existed in Ivekovic’s personal collection, often taken months or even years before the magazines were published. Part of a series called Double Life, originally published as an artist’s book, these works suggest the impact of media imagery on women’s lives while also highlighting the disparity between such images and the everyday."
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
Our second visit was to the Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum in South Kensington. Unfortunatley, we were not able to visit all of the exhibitions, however, we were able to see the exhibitions on 'Architecture' and some areas of 'Photography'. I noted down the photographer Sarah Jones and her image of 'The Dining Room (Francis place II) 1997'. This photograph is carefully staged to present the relationship between the viewer and the subject. The three teenage girls seem to be in a dining room with unusual postures and expressions, which possibly have a significance with the objects in the room, such as the ceramic dish in the centre of the table, left to interpretation.
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