Walsall Art Gallery Trip ....continued.

Catherine Yass

'Cell'

Lightbox

This is my chosen piece i will be writing my critical review about.It was part of the exhibition 'Behind Closed Doors'. The exhibition was curated and helped by students from a Walsall college and is all about mental health.

'Behind Closed Doors' explores the issues around depression,inner turmoil,intense emotions,highs and lows and features photography,painting,prints and sculpture, presented through the point of view of young people today and how they deal with and experience such issues.

When entering the space where this light box is the first thing you see in a dark sectioned area it really captures your eye and draws you in to look closely because of the bright colours being exposed through light but in contrast in a dark area so it stands out even more. This is how i truly knew there and then that I'd like this piece cause of the  way the colours and light really draw people into the work and make you want to find out more. When i walked in closer to the work and looked very closely at the image i then stood aside to read the writing and noticed the name 'Catherine Yass' I had a very small amount of knowledge of her work but i knew the name and recognised a few of her works. Whilst reading on a student from Walsall college had interpreted it in her own way.

I thought that this would be a good piece to choose as i really liked the colours and the idea of putting it on the light box as i have always in my work wanted to work with light and light boxes, also wanting to find out more about Catherine Yass and her work but also like Rebecca Maybury i wanted to show my interpretation of what i think the work is and when jotting down notes about the piece my mind was going crazy about ideas of what it could be.

I have lots of ideas and thoughts and opinions of what this work represents to me and i will not be telling you them all in this post but i will enlightening you in the upcoming posts. I will leave you with the idea of Rebecca sort of saying that the person is entering the through the gate to the pathways, however what if the person is leaving the other way and looking behind leaving the pathways and moving on and what if it is all in the mind and just a dream as the colours convey a trippy dreamlike quality.