Animation Creation

Last week I experienced my first art installation by Montreal-based artist Ramona Ramlochand titled “Unfallen”.

I find the chosen title to be quite representative of the experience; one of Ramona’s key tools in this installation was space. More specifically, it encourage viewers to question sense of presence in their space and time. She uses the scale of the wall to create a flow of a shapes through photographs from various places on Earth. She exemplifies the concept of thinking beyond the contraints of one dimension of a photograph by using these pictures to illustrate connectivity and unity between place and aesthetics. 

The experience in a museum cannot be compared to other medium as it requires the observer to be in the realm of the art and thus for the first time I felt I was a participant rather than a passive observer. The art piece asks for particular attention and reflection. For example, I had spent a substantial amount of the time gazing at the bowl consisting of moving water and miniature figures of people and animals. The movement of the water was video recorded and streamed in front of the viewer to get a birds-eye view of the piece. I was attempting to conclude what the artist wants me to think of this piece. 

I felt this particular installation raises issues of disfigurement within an individual and a community. The constant whirling illustrates a community’s routine lifestyle and sense of lostness in themselves and their future. I am unsure as to why the artist includes animals as well. 

In conclusion, I was new to and fond of Ramona’s use of space of both the museum and within the photographs. I found the installation to demand different — a more encompassing and intense — attention from the participant than previously used media.