The POP UP Installation was successfully installed and attended by my peer group of MA students and two tutors.
By enabling the grid of the net to drape both in space and down the walls the installation became more organic and enticing. A contrast of straight lines and angles and circles and spheres.
I had prepared 13 weights but only attached 5 as I did not want the installation to become merely decorative [those of Ernesto Neto are attractive and inviting in the main, losing some of their power]. The empty spaces become here as questioning as the weights, is the lack positive or negative to the viewer.
The weights are accessible to touch, hold, feel the surprising lack of heaviness, are the fears wrapped inside the body bag as weighty as presumed?
The open entrance to the netted area encouraged people to step inside, but they needed permission to touch.
The installation was site specific in as much as it was big enough to stretch from one wall to the other but the amount of drape was partly imposed by the distance between the walls and the height of the tensile cable above. It would have been a possibility in another space to have the area in darkness to add to the sense of the unknown.
there were many shapes and forms produced within and by the grid which delighted me and the viewers.
