Monday, October 19, 2009

TELLING TALES 30th Oct V&A Visit



This exhibition gave me a feeling of everything
being at a wrong place at a wrong time,
it's very fairylike and surreal to have the
combinations of functional furniture with unique
symbolic meanings.

I liked the Forest Glade, the sound effects and
the intriguing objects made us surrounded by the imagery of birds
and trees or perhaps even the imagery of us
feeling sleepy and climbing onto the bed or
getting locked up in the wooden wardrobe.
With the dark lighting, it derived more tension and mystery.
The artists displayed these works in the order of
the time lines and the narrativity they applied in each section
is inspiring ,creating visually exciting collections of objects.

Having mentioned tales, the little red riding hood, the snow white,
and the cinderella, apart from the forrest, the castle is also very important assumedly.
The Enchanted Castle has got one very shiny glossary wall, on the other side, some beautiful
patterned wall paper, decorating half of the room into a Queen or King's bedroom.
I'm more into the shiny part with a number of wonderfully weird teapots or containers, tables and clocks, designed and made in the same technique and materials as original objects, however, changing the sequences of how to put things together and using bright almost dazzling colour have taken viewers to somewhere glorious that they might want to linger for long.

It was very crowded in the 2nd chapter, soon as you walk into the 3nd, Heaven and Hell, where the artists lead people to go through different purgatories by exposing them with disturbing objects. And the funny thing is , there were three rooms and they were almost empty, it seems that people all walked past this section going straight towards their heaven, anywhere but not there.