I visited the Cube gallery to look at the new exhibition containing work from Fabien Marques and Jon Spencer. The building itself is very interesting, with the contrast of old brick walls and white plaster boards where the work hung. Though my work consists of mainly fabric and paint work, I was instantly drawn to the photography inside. The first piece that caught my eye were by Marques, a French photographer. The work represented the legal prostitution in Germany. The images were not seedy or shown in a derogatory way. The images were about the absence of the people, suggesting just the spaces in which they worked in. I was drawn to them firstly by their scale and use of bright colours, but then as I continued to look at them the smallest details became interesting to me. The use of space and the canvas sized worked very effectively to Marques.
http://www.cube.org.uk/exhibitiondetails/cubeopen2011exhibition/73
The work by Jon Spencer was also a photography piece. His work however was a series of different photographs to make up one image. He has taken images from Holy Trinity Staircase, Waterloo Bridge and Brent Cross Flyover to create a mythical vision of a place in London. The piece is made up of 72 different images, each being printed to their full size, none of them trimmed down. When I first looked at it, the piece looked like one place photographed from many different angles. As I kept looking I realised that the image was not one place at all, the images don't even remotely fit together. I thought this was an interesting take on perception and space. Each image is a confined space, yet they all come together to create a wider and foreign place.
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