F R E Q U E N C I E S is an MA show at Plymouth University showcasing the latest work of the 2018 postgraduate students. The exhibition includes a range of contemporary practice including video, installation, sculpture, performance, photography, books, objects, texts, critical design, service design and speculative design.
'The title of the show has been inspired by the diverse, transdisciplinary, nature of the students' practice. F R E Q U E N C I E S references the adaptability, elasticity and acceleration they show in negotiating change and innovation: taking charge of the ‘frequency dial’ and embracing progress, understanding how to make it their own'.
The work that was exhibited by then students is work that has been completed in different MA awards. Design, contemporary art practice, photography and the land and the book, photography and writing.
The whole exhibition was really intriguing because there was loads of different pieces of artwork all from different mediums not just photography which was a really pleasant surprise. Below I have got some of my favourite works from the exhibition:
Claire Masters, Slippage
Claire has completed her MA in Photography and the Land. Three of her photos were exhibited in the exhibition which looked phenomenal. The photos were so level and sharp with no noise they were amazing I would love to create some images like this one day. There wasn't an artist statement next to the art but in the catalogue from the exhibition there is a quote from a book, Bachelard, G. The Poetics of Space: United States, The Orion Press, 1964, p202. The quote is quite long but after the quote Masters then wrote what her work was about: 'In essence, my photographs are a contemporary cultural meditation on a changing world with shifting values and ideologies, a world that in recent times has has increasingly started to point towards it's own death'. From this I understood that the images were maybe a very clever, subtle way of showing the affect that Brexit and the government is having on the country.
Vanessa Miles, Sunday Swim
Vanessa has competed her Masters in MA Photography and created a moving image for her final exhibition which I really enjoyed because she has experimented with sound and both still and moving image clip of just under 5 minutes. There was very minimalistic sound which was the sound of water and people breathing and swimming which fitted really well with the title and the whole story of the project. The aim of the project was to communicate a sense of peace, tranquility and joyousness. I definitely sensed that from the moving image as everyone looked to be friends and although it looked very cold to be swimming in the river they all looked like they were enjoying themselves. A growing number of people are searching for a reconnection with nature at a time when the natural landscape is being plundered at an accelerating speed. Wild swimming is one of those.
Miles returned to the River Dart for more than a year throughout the different seasons. Each time she visited it made her slow down, stand still, immerse herself and become present in the act of observing and photographing. Since this project she has now taken up a daily ritual of of walking amongst the trees, to experience her own forest bathing.
There was a lot more pieces of work that I liked but these two were the two that I really liked because although they were focusing on the same sort of subject matter they created such different pieces of work. There was then people that had created sculptures and more interactive pieces which I also really enjoyed. One person had created a box with a hand sticker on and then when you placed your hand on it the box lit up because it could sense the hand and as soon as the hand was taken away the light in the box would turn off.
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