Week9#Meeting with James at Talbot Rice Gallery

Part I: Inspiration for the personal division of labor – GuideBook

When we entered the Talbot Rice Gallery, we were each given a booklet with a map and a description of each work of art. We could clearly distinguish the layout of the Talbot Rice Gallery and how each work of art was presented by serial number.

It’s like a reference for me so that the members of our group can have a clearer idea of how we should carry out our work, for example, some people can be responsible for labeling and ordering the artwork, and others can be responsible for laying out the interpretation of the artworks, and the people who are responsible for drawing the maps will be taken into account in the overall work.

Also during James’ talk, we realized that the layout of the whole exhibition, whether from the perspective of an installation or an exhibition that tends to use digital media technology, should try to portray a story that is not so much about the details, from the perspective of “I want the audience to hear this story”. (Not unconcerned, James’ words!)

We see the greenery in groups under the sun as a symbol of vitality and anti-colonialism; we see the miniature installation with fragmented dolls and other props collected from all over the world, presenting a humanistic diversity and the turmoil of the dilapidated era; we see the black research institute operating his microscope in the projector; we see the wall paintings and embroideries on the walls of the exhibition hall as symbols of nations and nationalities. Each work is a story, and as curators, our job is to bring the story to life through the work of the artists.

Part II: Some of my thoughts on the theme of the exhibition after this visit

At the very beginning, my intention was probably to have a more cute style, a girly, flowery exhibition, but after a few weeks of polishing, I realized that perhaps I could do more, to think more deeply, rather than just confine myself to the surface of external objects.

Throughout my exhibition, I take a creature in the environment: the flower, as the fundamental perspective, interacting between the unrealistic visual and the installation art, by giving the flower a certain human emotion and perception, and letting this effect backfire on people themselves, visualizing the perception of the flower, thus allowing the viewer to think intuitively and concretely about the current relationship between people and flowers, people and nature and the environment, and what we can find out from these relationships What can we discover from these relationships? We hope to provoke thoughts about everything and the environment in the audience and explore the hope and possibility of biological equality in the future.