Day 2 (03/09/2013) V& A, Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013
On Tuesday, I went on a trip to see an exhibition titled Memory Palace in Victoria and Albert
Museum, and also the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
The Memory Palace exhibition
features 20 commissioned installations by international artists, ranging from
designers, to illustrators and typographers. The installations are inspired by the
text of British author Hari Kunzru, bringing alive his work of fiction. Memory Palace is
set in future London that had been destroyed by a magnetic storm. The idea of
writing, recording, art and all memory were wiped and had been banned. The
story unfolds when a man in his cell attempts to remember the past.
The curators for this exhibition combine the two doings of reading
the text and looking at the art works. As said before they have created what seems
like a book of 3D. In the exhibition, unfortunately we were not allowed to take
photographs or do any sketches, so after I left I drew from memory of the
things I remembered in the exhibition.
I have benefited from viewing all the different styles of
works. It was very different to all the other exhibitions that I have been to, so
I did not enjoyed it as much as I thought I would. I am someone who rarely read
books, and the idea of a walk in book might have just slightly put me off. Nevertheless,
it has been a new and creative experience for me.
However, I was intrigued by Oded Ezer’s Looped films, which consists
of 8 typographic videos. “Oded Ezer’s short videos challenge the viewer’s perception of what it
is to read words” (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). I simply just found these
videos interesting without knowing the meaning of it, other than he is just
playing with words and their letters. In one particular video I was even trying
to lip read each letter he is saying, to figure out if he was spelling out a
word.
Later on, we went to see the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
2013, by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. It was an invitation that was accepted
by Fujimoto to design a temporary structure to display outside the gallery.
A delicate structure created with 20mm steel poles. It has a
semi transparent appearance that allows the work to merge with its surrounding
landscape. The stepped terraces provided spaces for people to sit on, creating an
environment where people can socialize in. This promotes visitors to interact
with the piece. It also allows people to enter inside the structure to the café
and sit within the work. This concept of being able to interact with the piece
really intrigues me. It is unusual but very interesting how we can be part of
the work from the exterior as well as the interior.
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