Sunday 6 September 2009

Dishwashers in art

Picking up the old argument "But is it art?" surely some of the exhibits only become art when we understand the creative process. Or maybe the creative process itself is the art - not the finished result. Here's an exhibit by Christopher Williams.

Williams, we're told 'loaded a set of dishware in the colours of each brand's logo into a dishwasher and photographed it. In the process of capturing and printing the images, he used film, chemicals, and photographic paper produced by the company that the colours signified. Williams captured the corporate identity of Kodak and Fuji, but couldn't capture AGFA's. The orange would oversaturate and turn into 'a kind of red.' Ultimately, in Erratum 2000, he obtained AGFA's colour by using a combination of Fuji and Kodak products.'

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