Questions

Selected Interiors, Cotham School- Hannah James

How was it made?

Where does it come from?

How does it make you feel?

What does it believe in?

What preceded it?

The work is made out of a projector that is placed on the floor, showing 22 pictures in a rotation. This collection of images was found at the Cottam School. The slides show images of 20th century paintings within a book. The slides taken from the book are most likely used to educate the students in art history. The work is developed from a research and interest in the representation of a painting as an image in a certain period of art history. The artist researched these found images. And most likely she used them as a tool in relation to her own practice. As a viewer you start to question where this work points to, because of its layered character. The artist seems to question the image in relation to the context of space and time of (art)history. Is it possible to pin an image down to a certain period? The images seem never to settle down, questioning the place where the image is projected, the photo was taken and at last the place of the page.

Correct me if I’m wrong- Roos Wijma

How was it made?

Where does it come from?

How does it make you feel?

What does it believe in?

What preceded it?

The work was made out of a painting, which painted directly on a wall of a gallery. Facing the wall painting a big temporal wall was made to separate the space into two rooms. The painting shows a red wavy line that appears when typing a grammatical error in Word. There is no content to what supposed to be wrong. The work makes you feel a little puzzled, the work is pointing to something or somewhere that is actually not there. The actual work on the wall is not there yet, or it still has to come. It could also mean that the artist is making a statement here: “ this piece is not condemned to only hang on a wall”. By taking the line out of it’s original context of the page and placing it directly on the wall the artist creates a poetic space to think in. The work seems to play with the rules of minimal art. The artist shows a certain possible potential to come. To be convinced of this potential you need to leave some of what you taken for granted behind, although you cant exclude the fact that there will be some doubts left.

So you can conclude that an images functions in different modes through the chronological order of history. The artist presents these images as flexible to different modes of presenting and different periods of time. An image that at first was born from a creative and artistic desire becomes an object to educate students.