The opening of any exhibition is generally linked to glamour. Most of those invited are there to appreciate the artist or the gallery director as to build contacts, and only a few to judge if the work it is of any importance. However, on the opening of a photography exhibition on Hoxton Square, East London the expected behaviour of the audience towards the pieces of work changed from appreciation to hostility as soon as the gallery director had a few drinks.
The exhibition, on the artist’s words were said to be a show of his time in America. He decided to show the public what he had been through while visiting the northern country and as its meaning. Nevertheless, the gallery director and curator, by the end of the show, said that the pictures were not “real” but created in a scenario with paid actors, one even being British. Which has nothing wrong, once the photographer is a fashion photographer and used to work like that but the fact that he had decided to published and sell its work as his own experience changed the perception of the its guest.
As in described in a prior entry to this blog, the manipulation of image is vivid everywhere yet people seem to be graving for realistic works, in which they can believed the image is authentic and proves to have meaning. And in this particular exhibition this desire became clear when the interest dramatically dropped as soon as the news of a fake trip was spread around the public. We, as public, are graving for reality, for things that can move us yet can we believe on images completely?
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