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| Galeria Strefart view from upstairs |
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| Another Galeria Strefart view from upstairs |
We spent Thursday exhibiting our work and getting the gallery presented in a professional way for the opening the following evening. As mentioned in my previous blog post about the exhibition, the theme is 'Error' and I decided to enlarge a glitch art style photograph I took from my dorm window.
I took the original photograph to the Photo studio at ASP Katowice to be scanned and then went to Rappid print studio to get it printed larger. I asked for a print of 70 x 100cm (B1) and was told it could be printed at a very similar scale, just slightly smaller due to the dimensions. I asked for it to be printed on matte paper for a high quality finish. There was a slight 'error' with communication at Rappid print studio, the man erased the dust marks and handwriting that had pressed through onto the photograph. Although I had intended to keep these accidental errors, I think it does look better without them and they weren't planned so I don't think they were necessary in my final work anyway.
My final exhibition piece only took a few minutes to exhibit. Both myself and Christina were given wall space upstairs in the gallery. Two pins were hammered into the wall on either side of the print, roughly halfway down the paper, and then some extra strong tack was used to fix it to the wall securely. When I picked the print up from Rappid, it had been rolled up and wrapped in paper to protect it. Instead of rolling the print the other way to make it completely flat, we decided it would look good placed on the wall naturally, with a slight curl at the bottom. We were asked to give our work a title and I went with the handwritten text I wrote onto the original photograph using a white gel pen. This reads,
'13/04/2018 19:49:00' - the date and time I took the photograph which happens to also be Friday the 13th.
Christina's final exhibition piece took around 7 hours to exhibit, she had many small works that needed to be arranged in a suitable format and then each individual piece was tacked onto the wall. I helped her with the arranging and then applying tack to each piece.
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| My Final Work exhibited - '13/04/2018 19:49:00' |
On Friday, we arrived at Galeria Strefart at around 5pm. This gave us an hour to check everything was in order before people began to arrive for the opening at 6pm. I have been to exhibition openings before at my College but I have never had my own work featured in an art gallery so it was a really great experience.
The way in which the exhibition was organised and presented felt so professional and it was insightful to be able to work with a range of different tutors - both from ASP Katowice and Plymouth University. It felt very 'fine art' as opposed to Illustration but it was good to be able to do something a little different visually as well as gain more experience in curating. |
| Poster advertising the Exhibition |
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| The doorway of Galeria Strefart |
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| Unfolded 'Agency of Error' Publication (front page) |
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| Unfolded 'Agency of Error' Publication (back page) |
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| Exhibition Text |
'The exhibition Prawo serii: Agency of Error considers error, as something, which has agency, and acts within the world. The artworks showcased, by the artists, begin to question the relationship between human and nonhuman error, within a society which is dominated by accuracy [Kessels, 2016] and, attempts to reclaim error from '... the trajectory of the unclean' [Nunes, 2012].
1. Thomas Baugh, Equivalences
2. Mateusz Kokot, Great Masked Man
3. Magdalena Lacek, Pamiec w niepamieci
4. Magdalena Kieszniewska, Studium prawej i lewej strony
5. Karolina Konopka, Maszyna do prasowania
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6. Hanna Wozniak, This is fine...
7. Magdalena Kieszniewska, Studium prawej i lewej strony
8. Ewa Zawadzka, Czarne pejzaze
9. Laura Rosser, Map of Error # 1
10. Gabriela Palicka, Progress in volumes
11. Ellie Daniel, 13/04/2018 19:49:00
12. Katarzyna Bogucka, Bez tytulu
13. Klaudia Pisarek, Wczesne podroze sentymentalne
14. Christina Lifford, Head Rush
15. Izabela Leska, Koncowki
16. Patrycja Modrzynska, Kodowanie
A fair amount of people turned up around 6pm, including press photographers. The Polish tutors, Pawel and Asher, said a few words as well as another Polish man who we couldn't understand as he didn't translate but we still clapped out of respect! We were honoured by one remark that Pawel made,
'This is one of the best Erasmus exhibition exchanges we have had'
Often, Erasmus students don't have time to participate but we made sure we could for the valuable experience.
It was also lovely to be able to look at the other work produced in the collaboration. I was impressed by how much the other students and lecturers had been able to achieve in the 2 week timescale. It definitely helped me to improve my own time management as well as my exhibition presentation and curation skills.
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| Christina with her final exhibition piece, 'Head Rush' |
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| The wall where our works are exhibited amongst other student's work 11. Ellie Daniel, 13/04/2018 19:49:00 12. Katarzyna Bogucka, Bez tytulu 13. Klaudia Pisarek, Wczesne podroze sentymentalne 14. Christina Lifford, Head Rush |
I am pleased with my final work and I'm proud that many people will be able to come and view it in the gallery setting, the exhibition is open until 1st June 2018.
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