This past Friday my colleagues Collin W. Carlos J. met outside of PAMM and continued to walk through the museum towards the exhibition together. After getting lost for a while, we finally arrived to the aisle. I did no research about this exhibition, in order to keep myself surprised, which was surely the case, as I immediately recognized the topic, or so I thought. Dominoes. Being born and raised Cuban I am familiar with this board game, and regularly play it. The game is fun, very competitive, and loud ( like most things involving cubans). Once we got in we drifted towards the artworks that caught our attention the most.
There were some pieces I found really interesting, and would like to share through here. Starting with "Domino Effect" Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker. This was a digital video, filmed in one take throughout the streets of Panama City, Panama. The video consists of a (apparently never-ending) series of bricks arranged in a continuous line through different landscapes inside the city. as the first brick is tipped over, one begins to fall after the other, creating the domino effect. The video lasted around five minutes and was beautifully shot, with a great sense of rhythm, color and composition. I theorized it was made in different takes then edited to look as a continuous movement ( I was proven wrong) but far beyond the curiosity of how it was made, I stayed still throughout the video's run, in order to know what happened at the end. This is a testament to how effective the artwork was. Another Piece I really enjoyed was "Bones" by Robin Rhodes. He mixed street art with performance, and presented it through photography. the series of photographs follow a line, and depict him posing alongside spray painted dominoes. these dominoes create a chain between pictures, like a real game of dominoes would, alongside his body strengthening the sense of movement and dynamics that connect them all. From a distance the work calls the attention for it's snake like composition, then draws you in closer so the whole experience can be broken down into specific moments and poses. There we many other pieces I enjoyed inside SDTT exhibition. Some were more creative than others, some with more layers of meaning to them, but overall the experience was great. We accomplished the task while we bonded as friends, and at least I personally was able to see how a single object or theme can create many different iterations, with different messages.
There were some pieces I found really interesting, and would like to share through here. Starting with "Domino Effect" Donna Conlon and Jonathan Harker. This was a digital video, filmed in one take throughout the streets of Panama City, Panama. The video consists of a (apparently never-ending) series of bricks arranged in a continuous line through different landscapes inside the city. as the first brick is tipped over, one begins to fall after the other, creating the domino effect. The video lasted around five minutes and was beautifully shot, with a great sense of rhythm, color and composition. I theorized it was made in different takes then edited to look as a continuous movement ( I was proven wrong) but far beyond the curiosity of how it was made, I stayed still throughout the video's run, in order to know what happened at the end. This is a testament to how effective the artwork was. Another Piece I really enjoyed was "Bones" by Robin Rhodes. He mixed street art with performance, and presented it through photography. the series of photographs follow a line, and depict him posing alongside spray painted dominoes. these dominoes create a chain between pictures, like a real game of dominoes would, alongside his body strengthening the sense of movement and dynamics that connect them all. From a distance the work calls the attention for it's snake like composition, then draws you in closer so the whole experience can be broken down into specific moments and poses. There we many other pieces I enjoyed inside SDTT exhibition. Some were more creative than others, some with more layers of meaning to them, but overall the experience was great. We accomplished the task while we bonded as friends, and at least I personally was able to see how a single object or theme can create many different iterations, with different messages.
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