The Third event
I attended was the Fowler Museum here on campus. I’ve had classes in the
building before but have never been inside the museum and I was surprised with
the quality of the exhibits. They were very interesting to walk through and
learn about things through art and what could be achieved through art. I was
fascinated with the Making Strange: Gagawaka & Postmortem exhibit by Vivian
Sundaram, the thought that went into the pieces was amazing. The concept of
using trash as a starting point for creating art is one that is very unique.
Me in the Exhibit
Garment made of found jock straps
Made of red ties
I’ve always been
really interested in different forms of fashion and this really did take it to
another level. The way he made art with a new meaning was very interesting. As
I watched the background video on the artist he said something like, “You don’t
think twice about the store mannequin in the store window and now with the
mannequin more as a sculpture each have their own character now.” It really
emphasized his focus on giving things meaning that may have not had much
before. One outfit that really struck me was the suit with different colored
pills as its design and I think that spoke really loud, making something that
could be a tragedy of addiction or pain into something more beautiful and
meaningful.
The Pill outfit
He also used the
mannequins and gave them more human like features. In the video he talked about
how he really enjoyed combining the mannequins and the medical cadavers
together to give the mannequins more human like qualities, because when you see
a mannequin they are hollow inside and he liked the idea of putting things
inside them. He really took the relationship between Medicine and Art to a new
artistic level.
Lungs inside of the manniquen chest
Spine inside of the mannequin
Poorly photographed but a brain type thing painted inside of the hollowed out head
