Delirium

This was the last level 4 student exhibition and so this group had the opportunity to visit all the previous exhibitions in order to gain a perspective on what was successful and what was not so successful. I think this made for a real thriving exhibition. The title Delirium initially suggested to me a maddening state of mind and so I presumed the exhibition would be confused and bewildering especially after seeing the advertising flyer as seen to the right.  However I was pleasantly surprised the exhibition turned out to be a beautiful, colourful event with plenty of large scale paintings juxtaposed among smaller mediums which incorporated shadows which was very visually exciting. In my opinion although the flyer links well to the theme of Delirium, I find it does not link to the actual exhibition as much and gave a false expectation to the viewer. I think the best aspect of the show was the use of colourful balloons scattered across the floor, this made for an interactive exhibition for the viewers. The curators used the following as their tagline, which again I think sums up the exhibition as a whole: 'What I see is not what's actually there. But my mind perceives it to be there. .....So what I'm looking at might not actually exist....This colourful but twisted state of limbo. Through this wondrous hallucination is in itself the deterioration of my sanity and yet I can't help but.......'