Wonderful exhibition of Pipilotti Rist's work at the Hayward, a trip to London to see it well worth it! One thing that struck me in relation to my own work was the use of light, shadows, transparency and intrusion to make you the viewer experience the spaces that yourself and the artworks inhabit. Long strips of material, veiling and obscuring views that you could walk around, between and through made the whole experience terrifically immersive with light, sound, film, and photography filling the whole space - I really felt as though I had come out of an experience, rather than the usual process of just looking at art when bleary eyed I left the gallery space. Another feature that I became aware of was the importance of scale, and what such a power this is in regards to impact. Up until now I have been working in a relatively small scale, and maybe its time for me to move away from models and make use of the studio space available...
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