“What Happens at Night” an exhibition by Eva Redamonti
Comprised of hand-made ink drawings, a site installation, and a series of animated shorts, “What Happens at Night” offers performative imagery and auditory accompaniment that reference Eva Redamonti’s childhood growing up in a suburban New England town. The show reflects on the power of belongings in a haunted home, the feeling of isolation and paranoia amidst mundane landscapes, and the dialogue between self to self that comes with spending many hours alone.
This exhibition will showcase Eva Redamonti’s journey in the arts from the visual to auditory, and aims to show how these sensory stimulants interact with one another. Through repeating visual motifs and experimenting with different line weights
Her work has really inspired me moving forward. I was initially engaged by the incredible illustrations she has created as a vital competent to her exhibition. Which is weirdly similar to my exhibiton in the works. Then alongside her moving image animated shorts that bring her concept to life. The auditory element of her advert completely drew me in, I felt on edge due to the monotone ding sounds, and then the building up of the sound getting faster and faster and more chaotic really comprised a traumatic auditory experience, but one that kept me engaged.
I plan to experiment with this type of sound through possible foley in the next stages, as this perfectly encompasses the stressful, confusing experience I want my viewers to experience when navigating through the initial part of my exhibition
- MENTAL: Head Inside, curated by Tilly Boleyn.
Two years in the making, MENTAL was curated in defiance of the pandemic by a team of professional curators, an advisory group of young people and experts. The works on display are the fruits of an international open call on the expansive topic of the human mind.
Although the exhibition explores the mind’s many dimensions, it tilts toward timely issues of mental health.
The exhibition has similar links to mine due to the focus on mental health. My exhibition conveys the struggles and confusion of manipulation, through the propaganda of Hanoi Hannah
Similar to my exhibition also, Tilly has used bright colours to convey this message. Which is what I am doing, with the thought process of a brightly coloured palette which will stay in the minds of viewers and bring to light the turbulence of manipulation. AS scientifically proven brighter colours stay in the mind significantly more than greyer, darker colour palettes.
The most confronting is Rory Randall and Indigo Daya’s Isolation Chamber, a recreation of a seclusion room for involuntarily detained psychiatric patients. The practice is due for elimination following the Royal Commission into Victoria’s mental health system.
Visitors can enter and experience the pinned helplessness of being surveilled from many angles by those outside. Like many other exhibits, visitors can also record their reactions.
Fear and influence section which relates the most to my initial experience of my exhibition.
Zhou Xiaohu’s mesmerising Even in Fear has a weather balloon inflate menacingly within a pink, vaguely ribcage-like enclosure. Some may find the suspense frightening, others thrilling.
Fear and nightmares also animate some of Indigenous artist Josh Muir’s sumptuous visual designs and soundscapes in Go Mental. The dreamlike feel of his work leads into the visual and auditory distortions and trippiness of Nwando Ebizie’s Distorted Constellations.
Using colour theory creating the sense of fear with red and the combination of the visual and auditory senses are too driving forces of my exhibition in evoking emotion
Gut feelings, Music is also central to Sophia Charuhas’ Microbial Mood. A live experiment tests whether different kinds of music differently influence the growth of gut bacteria, collected in petri dishes above a set of speakers. The artist speculates future music could be used to enhance health by fine-tuning the gut-brain connection.
Even though my exhibition doesn't have any scientifically elements like above, this installation element does represent how music has such an impact on a viewer and can evidently internally change the way a person views or experiences something