In photographic form, I’ve noticed shapes; outstretched and intricate.

Today we visited the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia to see Patrick Pound’s The Great Exhibiton. This exhibition was surprisingly super interesting and gave me great insight to all the different ways you can notice. Pound is an avid collector of many many things, his work was vast and invites the viewer to rethink the meaning of somewhat meaningless objects. Each room throughout the exhibit created a new logic or narrative to unravel or identify. It was pretty cool!

Here’s a little snippet of what we saw.

The photographer’s shadow

Damaged

Photography and air – this was a personal favourite. It was one of his most engaging collections despite only being photographs. It invites the viewer to figure out how each photograph relates to air.

Things Change

People holding cameras

Falling

“Some things have little to do with each other until they come into contact.”

“Photography stops people in their tracks. Eventually every photograph is a photograph of a dead person. The camera is an idling hearse”.

There were so many different ways in which Pound presented and arranged his collections, I spent the entire walk through re-evaluating every piece and the different ways his objects spoke to each other. There was a clear sense of rhythm and all in all it was sort of playful. It felt like the perfect introduction to ‘noticing’, and definitely something I’ll draw ideas from for the rest of the semester.

How can I construct meaning through grouping subtly similar objects?