Mnemoawari

https://dma.ucla.edu/events/calendar/?ID=1007
On May 11, I attended an exhibition called “mnemoawari” by E. Joteva. As I walked in, I heard noises, as if someone were tapping on a microphone every 7 seconds or so. The event showcased ice sculptures filled with colorful vegetation of various sorts inside the ice. I was a little grossed out at first because the sculptures were hanging by a thread with bowls that collected its drippings. It almost looked like blood was dripping from an animal. Behind the sculptures were huge images of how these ice sculptures looked like before the melting process. They were beautiful and magnificent, and looked nothing like the melting sculptures that were presented.

            

The artist revealed spherical sculptures, of different colors, that were melting away.. made of different vegetation and ice. Jetova explained that the images on the screen and the melting sculptures define a relationship between a present type of memory and the past memory. The space in between is currently melting away, and triggers glitches in its virtual memory, represented by the sudden noises. 
      

I really enjoyed this exhibition because it was interactive and I could look at all the sculptures first hand. As I observed, I thought about these sculptures as the cycle of life. We all start out as young and beautiful, bright and vibrant with color. However, once we age, we lose our youth, strength, and our color. We experience glitches/hardships in our lives, and one day we wither/melt away, just like these sculptures.

This event reminded me of the concepts we talked about in the math and art lecture. I noticed that the sculptures were in perfect, geometric spheres. This must not have been easy because the vegetation inside were made up of pieces of all different shapes and sizes. Holding the natural vegetation together while freezing the product in a perfect sphere had to taken some measuring, such using proportions and perspective.