Tate Modern Collection

JULY 2025

Art pieces/artists I liked:
Art and Religion room [mescha gaba]
Shashi Bikram Shah
Life of Imitation [Ming Wong]
Wael Shawky
Farah Al Qasimi

Yoshitomo Nara - Hayward Gallery

JULY 2025

I visited this exhibiton on a whim, never having heard of the artist before, but I was pleasantly surprised. The work held alot of child like play and dream-like quailites, which I really liked. I liked seeing the progression of the artists characters and how music was integrated into his work, as well as how he used environment to draw in viewrs.
A nice example of this is with one piece where he had built a small shack, in which there were many drawings and a persons bedroom made inside, though the only view the audience got was fragments of it through certian windows. This limitation of the audiences view was very interesting and I think forced people to look more closely, as well as create a feeling that more was being said that maybe we couldn't/werent allowed to see.
Yoshotomo Nora's later works held more of that dream-like quality, with large detailed eyes and blurred fuzzier backgrounds. I found he had an interesting way of conveying emotion through his characters expressions and eyes particularly.
One piece where a large tea cup held the heads of crying children dressed as lambs really conveyed a sense of melancholy and introspection to me. The pure white statue, glowing white lights and cold blue water and background added alot to the atmopshere of serenity with sadness.

Mike Kelley - Tate Modern

MARCH 2025

This exhibition was a fun one, another exploring the works and life of an artist. This one held a much more humorus tone, and the works all followed overarching themes, which were persisstent in Kelleys life, but also showed thier clear development and progrresing. Kelley's use of text is what drew me to his works personally, but I also found interest in his more preformance based works, and the use of costumes and humour in those.

Mire Lee, Open Wound - Tate Modern Turbine Hall

MARCH 2025

This installation was breathtaking to look at, gorgeous, visceral and intense. The slow moving turbine covered in fabrics was mesmerising to look at, while also being hard to take in. with each turn liquid splashes into the pit at the bottom, and the drops echo around the turbine hall, making it an all too perfect location for this installation. Lee's piece was looking at creating an industrial womb, and did so in an excellent way. The materials used created a felshy effect and looked dark and bloody while also seeming mechanicial in certian ways.

Noah David - The Barbican Center

MARCH 2025

When entering this exhibition I was unsure of what to expect. I dont normally go and see paintings, I am usually more drawn towards installation and mixed media pieces, but I was suprised by how much I liked the exhibtion.
Through two floors and various paintings, the exhibition explored David's life through his art. It was interesting to see how his technique and skills improved and changed over time, and the different ideas he chose to explore, all of which had overlapping themes and ideas.
His paintings themselves were simple but touching. The nostalgic feel and the vibrant colours, all speaking to his own life and the life he saw around him, from which he often depicted his works. My favourite of his was Congo #2, which had more somber colours, and a lighter wash for the background, forcing the viewer to instead focus on the gathering of people in the center of it, the empahsis on their togetherness.