17/8/2017 0 Comments Graduated!
The portraits were well received with many visitors finding a deep understanding of my concept: The complexity of humanity and the lack of genuine social connection we have with one another. I noticed many more people than expected stopped and spent a good length of time reading and becoming involved with the portraits. Looks of interest, concern and humour crossing their faces as they scanned the variety of personal information supplied from each subject.
This was a huge success for the project and the motivation I needed to plan my next stage: Picking out these statements that get these visible responses from visitors and illustrating them in their own statements. A way of highlighting the oddities of human conversation that get us so emotionally involved in conversation. My criticisms for this exhibition would be that my room was difficult to find on an upper floor of a side wing to the building. This along with the complicated maps provided meant many people visited the central exhibition and simply avoided the wings. Whilst I had little control over the curation of the exhibition I will keep this in mind when considering future exhibitions in this type of building that needs at least a clear route made to ensure areas are not missed accidentally. Secondly, most visitors are very uncomfortable using the tablet which meant most ignored entirely or read only the part of the page that was showing, not scrolling to see the explanation or comment box. This may be helped in future by printing a full explanation on paper and having the tablet only on the comment box or simply leaving a comment book with printed explanation. It is expected that some will be entirely irrelevant contributions but I do believe more would get involved with this more inviting medium.
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