The MotI/On Show

This was the first time for me to see a 3D installation and a video piece combined together in one work. I have seen photography, painting, or even sculpture that is accompanied with video or audio, but not a paper installation with a radical surreal sort of video. When I first entered the room, the piece was the only thing there (I got there 10 min. before they closed so there was no one) and it really caught my attention. The very small folded paper fragments that were forming the human size dress, the way it was hanging there under the lights inside the dark room, the blurry faded video, and the sound of the little girl singing at the background... all played very well in setting the mood and telling the story of the Little Red Riding Hood in "Tell Me More Stories." What made it even more interesting was the commentary of the two artists that was next to the door of the gallery room. Their comments made the two pieces more personalized and more linked to each other. The artist comment on how her childhood lacked the presence of the fairy tale fantasy world explains why she made the dress from folded pages from fairy tales books. The combination of the dress installation with the video that resembles the story of the Little Red Riding Hood strengthens the idea of this fantasy world where each artist finds part of herself, and that appears in Zoe's comment when she said that on Dec. 15th she will wear the dress to experience the world of fairy tales that she created. Also, in Maria's comment when she mentioned that the red dress used in her video is her daughter's and it was actually hers when she was little. So, I think this is a good example to show the interaction between real life stories and fairy tale stories that make the role of the agency even more powerful and clear in shifting the thoughts of the imagination from one world to another, and in showing how each person reacts differently towards this agency based on their own memories and experiences.