27-02-2023 | Bloomburg New Contemporaries at South London Gallery
Last week we took a class trip to see the New Contemporaries exhibition at South London Gallery. As we approach our final degree show in a couple of months, I'm very focussed on experiencing as many exhibition methods as possible to get a better understanding of my own work might function. It is also exciting to see the work of emerging artists in a renowned London gallery, and how a large scale exhibition incorporating multiple artists' work is curated as a whole.
The piece that had most impact on me was Rosalie Wammes' 'There will be Time' which consisted of two large ceramic megaphones on stilts, with opposite and facing each other, with a backdrop of handmade Venetian blinds. When I first encountered the physical work, I was intrigued by the earthy qualities of the ceramic, but it was only when I pin pointed the fact that these vessels where emmiting sound - a therapeutic humming difficult to distinguish - that I became fully entranced. What worked so well was that firstly the origin of sound was truly disguised (despite inspecting the work carefully, I couldn't locate the source, though I'm certain it was coming from inside the megaphones) and secondly, the experience of sound altered as you walked around the sculpture installation, reaching its most enveloping when standing at the central point between the facing megaphones. Seeing this work has helped me understand what can make sound work successful and how to marry the two disciplines of audio and visual with seamless impact.
There will be Time, Rosalie Wammes, 2021
