Progress from last project to the next

Catherine Yass was an artist recommended to me in my assessment feedback. I found her work very exciting at first glance; her work is based around photography and corrupting the works in different ways e.g. soaking pictures in water, burning sections of images, distorting, distressing etc. She wants to express the object itself in the image with photography such as burning parts of a photograph of gas towers.

I found a website that looks at one of her exhibitions; it draws comparison with the work I created for my last project - looking at dreams and mind imagery. I am still interested in the concept of dreams but on a less personal level, I like the idea of dreams creating scenes that we have pieced together in our minds from fragments of our daily life. I find the surreality of it the most interesting.

This is the website: Sleeping and Dreaming (Article), this is an exhibition from the Wellcome Collection. The exhibition wants to understand the states of sleep and also question the future roles of sleep when we live in a world that so hectic and fast-pace that it is "turning sleep into a luxury."

The works in the show look at sleep derivation and the strange states of sleep.

 

http://www.archiveofsleep.com/page/3 This is also a link to another website which shows another piece of Catherine Yass' work. I like the use of poetic work in the display as I think it creates a surreal sense of delirium when looking at issues of insomia.