Image left: installation shot from exhibition. For more information on the exhibition visit Grundy's website.
Whilst I am on my work experience at Grundy, I wrote this review of their current exhibition by Leo Fitzmaurice and Paul Rooney.
What can I see?
When I walk in to the exhibition I see one half of the room in white and the other half of the room in brown floor tiles but the floor tiles are on the Wall and the white is on the floor where the wall is supposed to be so what's going on? it looks like the walls and the ceiling have been swapped they have slipped it's all turned over there's just a big white and Brown room....
What I can hear?
I hear a boy, a little boy talking something about his pet stoat and where his pet is he say's the pet has a bottle of water on the out side of his hutch. He tells me his daddy is operning his hutch door to give him his dinner.
Now he's whispering asking me if i am hearing thigs that I am in a bright big room. And that his voice is from a film, a film that I have seen before in the gallirey but he is telling me that I am not sure of it. The boy is now telling me I enjoyed that film. The film is called dog savages stoat he's saying it was gruesome but funny. perhaps the childs voice as left her stranded inbetween the floor and the walls after the film had been shown or maybe the voice has come back to speak to you the boy is asking his dad why he his stoat has I black around his ear hole and why he has a black tip on his tail. The boy is now telling me there is a dog from next door the boy thinks the dog is ugly and brown now the boy is screaming
"Black ear.......White and red...... Black ear ......Daddy... Daddy!.."
the boy souneds like he has a cold i can hear wind the in the background the boy sounds scared it has ended.
What I feel after wards?
I felt scared for the little boy he wanted his daddy, I also felt confused why was the boy shouting? I felt that's why he got trapped to get help that's why he was shouting he want's help but his daddy isn't there some thing is wrong I felt I needed to do something but what?
What I now know:
Now I know what's going on a film maker (the boy's dad) got the next door neighbours dog to kill his son's pet stoat while his son was watching he wanted to see his son's reaction he knew it would be cruel but funny to that's why the boy was shouting because his pet was being killed it's a film and it was shown in the gallirey and now the boy's voice is trapped from the film he is trapped in bettween the walls and the ceiling I feel it was scarey at first but now I know the story, I like it. It is very interesting, it play's on your mind and makes you think, so any gallery that does that is a good gallery. I enjoyed it very much!
