Cathy's Art Diary

Gallery installation at University of Brighton by film maker Agnes Varda as part of Brighton Festival. The installation consisted of pictures of naked men on posts on a beach with jigsaw shaped pieces missing, a video of coloured plastic bags and pictures with a rubber ring. However the best bit was a video looking at a photo she’s taken years before of a boy on a beach which she then analysed however many years on. She revisited the people in the picture to see what had happened to them and asked what they remembered of the day and also looked at what else happened at the time the picture was taken. An interesting way of freezing a moment in time then using it to look to the future and analyses the context.

Small exhibition at Brighton University of porcelain sculptures by Rachel Kneebone as part of the Brighton Festival. The works were like mounds of melting bodies with distinct shapes and broken bits. They have a Renaissance feel as they have a basic classical shape before they disintegrate. They look like a nasty accident in the Bow factory! I wish I’d had more time to study all the detail in them.