We attended the failing falling flying exhibition by Rebecca Ann Hobbs at the A.U.T Art gallery on St Pauls street on the 27 of July. For me personally I didn’t really find much of her work that interesting, because I couldn’t really relate to her artwork. Although one of the images at her exhibition that stood out for me the most was called 90 Degrees. I found this piece of work really interesting because it shows us how the male on the image is lying down face up looking inside the skirt of the woman who is seen standing on the photo. For me that image is kind of feminist in a way but imp not sure. After looking through her exhibition we got together and listened to her and how she brought about the images she has at her exhibition Rebecca talks about the word absurd and for her it holds the idea of “strife to find meaning in this world, but how she has never been able to find it “. She talks about how she had been inspired by the idea from Sisyphus, who had been punished by God to push this huge rock up this hill, once Sisyphus was at the top of the hill God would then forcibly roll the huge rock back down the hill and would be repeated for eternity. Rebecca then talks about how a lot of her earlier works were just muck around work because the fact that they didn’t really have much meaning to them and that’s why the names of her works at her exhibition are very simple and literal
The second exhibition that we attended was at the auckland art gallery. The walter's prize was a 50,000 doller reward that had been selected for four nominees. In my opinion I thought that none of them should have won because of the fact that all there works were really crap and I simply had no interest in them.but because we had to choose one of them I think that Fiona Conner's work “Something Transparent” should have won the walter's prize award. I found it really interesting because of the fact that she had made an exact replica of the ceiling above her work using plastic and acrylic. It was an awesome piece of artwork
