Monday 27 February 2012

Research: Studio Muti window display

I came across some photos of a window display by a collective known as 'Studio Muti' based in Cape Town, South Africa. The display I looked at was a collaboration between the two members of Studio Muti; Clinton Campbell and Miné Jonker, and their friend, ceramic artist Belinda Ormond.

" We created an artwork and conceptualized a window display for 'The Fringe On Kloof', a Cape Town gallery and shop that stocks prints, ceramic art and jewellery from local artists. (www.thefringearts.co.za). Prints are for sale at the shop." (From behance.net/muti) 


The piece was based on a poem by e.e cummings.

who knows if the moon's:


who knows if the moon's
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky--filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should


get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we'd go up higher with all the pretty people


than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody's ever visited,where


always
it's
Spring)and everyone's
in love and flowers pick themselves





(all above images from behance.net/muti)

The installation shows elements of the poem like the balloon, the night sky and the city. This seems similar to my take on the text I am using at the moment; taking the literal and extracting it but retaining the symbolic elements in the images. 
But I what I really liked about this installation was the use of light and colour. The blue and yellow light evokes the night city scene. This light gives a dreamlike quality which is further shown with the ladder and the balloon, as well as the stars hanging. 


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