Wednesday 22 April 2015

Video Piece

Video Piece

I was thinking about how I could develop the idea of an evolution from male to female into a four screen installation and made this video which would loop continuously with a screen on each wall. The screens would surround the audience and flash continuously, sadly I can not really make up this installation as we do not have the kind of fabric back projected screens I would need.


Below would be the layout of the room with a screen taking up each wall, I made the video in one long strip so that it would better demonstrate the effect. The first image would appear on the left wall and they would then continue clockwise.

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I feel that making this piece has put a 'full stop' in my work around the Transgender community and the story of 'Auntie Frankie', I feel that the video has demonstrated her journey from male to female in a sense. I think her journey has now got a closing point and it is time for me to move on to more issues surrounding the body and mind. My main interest thus far has been about the body and how people see it, I really want to explore conditions such as Body Dysmorphia, Bulimia, Anorexia and other ways body image is affected. 

Vikki Stevens is an emerging artist interested in many areas including body image, mental health and abstraction. Her latest series of work aims to show how images and perceptions of women are “put- together”/ manufactured, and how these images and perceptions affect how women feel about their own body image. Vikki’s ideas for her artwork are expressed in mediums such as paint, collage and sculptural objects, mostly incorporating repurposed images from magazines and found documents. Artists such as Tracey Emin and Hannah Hoch have a large influence on her work. Both the personal perspective and distorted images play a major part in creating pieces that discuss personal as well as cultural issues within mainly the western world/media sphere. Stevens is planning on developing her work into a more abstract sphere to investigate feelings that she has herself and how she can communicate them by using and developing abstract techniques, continuing with collage as a starting influence. Currently the materials and processes she has used in her past work and the work in development are having a large impact on how the work develops and the message behind the work is entirely open. Rather than having a stand out message Stevens is now moving towards a more indirect way of working, focusing more on feelings rather than statements. Current concerns within the work reflect how Stevens feels about herself in day-to-day life and how outside influences affect her and her work. More specifically Stevens is dealing with feelings of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and how she feels as an individual in the world. Artists such as Gerhard Richter, Barbara Kruger, Yago Hortal and Steve Salo are having a large impact on the current work in development.

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