I went to see an exhibition by Matthew Buckingham at the Dundee Contemporary Arts and I thought that the first installation "The spirit and the letter" was the most effective, I liked the fact that when I walked into the gallery I was presented with a bright sparkling chandelier which appeared to be upside down. The images projected onto the far wall in the gallery were equally important to making me feel like the space i was in was inverted, as the woman in the video was placed in all different positions in an 18th century Georgian interior. There was nothing else in the gallery which i could concentrate on, being set inside a large white room which made it all the more effective for me.
The second part of the exhibition, "false future" I didn't enjoy quite as much, partly because i didn't really understand what the artist was trying to convey. After reading an interview with the artist I found the he was trying to show a human interest in moving images he said, "I wanted to use this as an opening to look at our desire for and use of moving pictures, by looking at the pervasive and driven effort to bring them into existence at a time when the idea was purely imaginative." I also didn't think that this installation was as effective because it wasn't enclosed in a gallery like the first one. It was in the middle of a large gallery which people had to walk through to get to other parts of the exhibition so I found myself getting distracted from the film that was in front of me.
The next parts of the exhibition i found could have been made more effective by the use of seating in them, I think that the installation "everything I need" could have been more effective by the use of real aeroplane seats rather than just the wooden block on the wall at the back. i think this would have made the reader really feel like he/she was in that space of reflection. Also with the "interview with a cultural follower and a public space-inhabitant " I think it could have been made more effective for the viewer if the seating in the gallery was a park bench and the film was projected onto a larger screen.
