Video Work – Chair Sculptures
These images show snapshots of a 30-second video, which cuts abruptly showing two chairs interacting in front of some bins. This location was chosen as discarded chairs can often be found here. It is interesting to consider how the functionality of the chair can be questioned depending on the context it is place in. The contrast to the internal setting of the chair in previous photographs I wanted to elaborate on in this work.
Photoshop Experimentation
In this photoshop work I expand on the photographs taken earlier. Particularly I am interested in obscuring the context of the room, and the role of the chair within it, in order to amplify the chair’s form in relation to the ground.
Initial Set of Photographs
In this initial set of photographs, I begin to explore the chair as the found object. It is placed within an indoor environment where we would usually expect to see it used, yet its position in front of a door renders it awkward and produces slight tension. The idea of functionality lies central to this set, exploring how orientation renders the same object ‘useless’ yet amplifies the object’s sculptural properties; properties we may ignore when using the chair conventionally.
Initial Inspitation
Tracing Listicle Generation Toppling – Ser Serpas
Jason Dodge
Marcel Duchamp
Introducing Myself
Hello, my name is Alex. I’m Russian and French and grew up in Holland before coming to Edinburgh to study. I particularly enjoy photography as an artistic medium, with Keith Arnatt and Peter Fraser’s work having a significant influence on my interests and way of working within this medium. A contemporary art gallery is one of my favourite spaces to be when I need inspiration. Some of my favourite galleries/museums include the Witte de With Gallery in Rotterdam and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
In this module, I’m really hoping to develop my interests in photography and printmaking. I’m excited to get feedback from others and use my course-driven motivation to improve my creative work. I think it will also be interesting to see how my skills from my architecture modules might come into play in my work, since this field tends to feel isolated from the other arts in some aspects.
