Reading Response, Gillian Wearing, Katharina Fritch and Erwin Wurm

 

The Many Selves of Gillian Wearing

She talks about social media in terms of how that is involved in our everyday activities and we are also always expecting to see new things happening. We perform the duties of liking and disliking the information we encounter and we desire to also have followers as part of life achievement. Wearing said she does include her life into her practice. She goes through her old pictures taken by photo booth camera and the recreate the same posture to compare the difference in time. It is interesting that that she uses photography as reference to her past as she tries to feel the progress of her life.

Thinking in Pictures Katharina Fritsch In Conversation with Susanne Bieber

I find it interesting when Katharina said that cloth is a very subject but not really regarded. She added that cloth could be a great a medium through which one’s status or identity could be shown. In her work uses mostly the male model as a way to explore her way of women rights because she believe that the female body always been a male’s sexual gaze but Katharina tends to twist the narrative in the opposite way. When she sketches her before she does her work she mentioned that she rather takes photos of Frank by record him in the right position. I found that interesting in relation to photography and sculpture where she uses photography as a process of sketching a model.

Photography Knocks At The Door Erwin Wurm in Conversation with Max Hollein

 Erwin Wurm’s practice is both a combination of sculpture and photography in the sense that she uses sculpture to explore photography. In her photographs, the figures pose as if they were sculptural pieces. What is also interesting about her work is that she stages the model take the photographs. In the interview, I realized that realized that Erwin uses her work to raise question sculpture but with the help of photography. She is more invested in her practice and she responds critically to art history movement and yet separates herself to explore new theories that inspire her work.