Everyday Anomalies exhibition review
Everyday Anomalies is an art exhibition at the Phoenix Gallery in Brighton until March 22nd 2008.
Everyday Anomalies is a collection of installations from a group of artists from Hong Kong. The focus of the art seems to be fun and humour. The artists attempt to find unusual elements of everyday life and focus on these.
Some of these pieces are in the vein of hidden camera shows. One piece shows a video of someone with incredibly long shoelaces walking through a shopping centre, as people try to step on them or point them out to him. Another video documents one man’s attempt to fill an apartment with his own air. He blows into plastic bags one by one and does slowly succeed in his mission. A third documents a man calling a random number he sees somewhere, and conversing with the person on the other end of the line. They all work very well, and are improved by the fact that these people are from Hong Kong, rather than here, which makes it all seem that little bit more exotic.
The exhibits all have an interactive element where possible. In the photo above we see a pillow the size of a man, and an empty bed hollowed out in the gallery floor. We are invited to lie down for a while. There are music boxes on one wall, allowing you to play the sounds of constellations which have been mapped onto the reels containing the notes. Another piece requires you to lie on the floor and peep through a tiny hole.
There is some really random stuff going on here, I won’t spoil it by going into it all, but all I can say is you will have lots of fun if you go down and take a look for yourselves!
Exhibition closes March 22nd.