This work is to explore the static performance of memory in dynamic time. My friend is the protagonist in the photo, and what is recorded is a conversation between me and her about memory. This is the memory of a conversation between me and her from my viewpoint, the expression and documentation of the memory in the present time. For her, it is the experience she recalled in the past, and the memories that happened in the past are recorded through her facial expressions. The feelings you have when you see this work are memories that happened in the future.
Duan, JX. (2021) I think what I think [oil painting].
150 x 140 cm
Camberwell, London
Sort of images of work in a gallery situation
Geta Bratesu Experiments and Inspiration
In Geta Bratescu's collage artworks I got some inspirience to feel this new portraiture world. "Many of her works address issues of the body and self-representation. She often explores her face and its expressions and incorporates self-portraits into objects or works on paper." (Redzisz, 2013)
Geta Brătescu, L’aventure. Roman Inedit (The Adventure) (1991). Collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest. Photo by Stefan Sava.
Daimoneasa [The Demoness], 1981 Drawing and collage on paper, 52.5 × 42.5 cm
The significantly positive function of collage works that simply feature fragments from the artist's everyday surroundings in unexpected arrangements, since imposing new meaning onto materials often intended for mass visual consumption is also a form of rebellion. Collage affords artists the means to exert control over the flood of images we are confronted with daily by usurping them and twisting, ignoring, defying, or mocking their original implications.(Busch and Klanten, 2016, p.3) Moreover, the creative form of collage is the finest way to help me to express my feeling of conscious and unconscious, of realty and fancy.
