TITLES...OR NO TITLES
Remember when Marielle and I visited the Alfred Manessier exhibition and my theory about titles? I don’t really approve of a title when it doesn’t seem to relate in any to an artist’s work. I may need to retract my words as coming into two very big exhibitions at the Tripostal, I really didn’t know what I was looking at. When I did find text and an explanation, most of the time it didn’t seem to relate to what I was looking at either….
The first exhibition was called :- « Tu dois changer ta vie » (You must change your life-style). Such a title is supposed to make you wake up and act in front of the different installations or art work we were seeing. They explore the progress of science, new technologies and as you go along a chosen route you are supposed to become part of the work or the actor inside the work….I followed my designated route looking around but even so, with the exception of some videos or installations, it was very unclear to me.
Coming into the first gal