Exhibitions, United Kingdom, Norfolk, Norwich, 11 June 2012
Punctum is the collective title for the artworks being exhibited in The Bicycle Shop and is related to another exhibition of similar works collectively titled Studium.
Studium is being exhibited in this year’s degree show in the St. Georges Street building at the Norwich University College of the Arts from the 27th June until the 3rd July.
The two exhibitions comprise of work that involve cutting into found objects and representing them as new artworks.
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The sociologist Roland Barthes used two Latin words studium and punctum to describe elements in photography. The first element studium is of the order of liking, not of loving; it is unconcerned desire, vague, banal, derived from culture it is a contract between creators and consumers. The second element punctum is to break, or punctuate. It disturbs the studium with points, wounds; for punctum is also to cut.
For many, our lives, whether real or imagined, continue uninterrupted from moment to moment. Occasionally an experience punctures the banality of our day to day existence. The sensations, feelings, thoughts, actions, that arise from such an experience can be sources of joy; welcome news, a new friendship, love, music, kindness, conception and can also be a source of pain; unwelcome news, loveless relationships, music, hostility, death.
Without a wound, healing and growth cannot take place. All of the things we experience that cut into our psyche are sources of joy and pain, but both exist together and give birth to growth.
Studium is being exhibited in this year’s degree show in the St. Georges Street building at the Norwich University College of the Arts from the 27th June until the 3rd July.
The two exhibitions comprise of work that involve cutting into found objects and representing them as new artworks.
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The sociologist Roland Barthes used two Latin words studium and punctum to describe elements in photography. The first element studium is of the order of liking, not of loving; it is unconcerned desire, vague, banal, derived from culture it is a contract between creators and consumers. The second element punctum is to break, or punctuate. It disturbs the studium with points, wounds; for punctum is also to cut.
For many, our lives, whether real or imagined, continue uninterrupted from moment to moment. Occasionally an experience punctures the banality of our day to day existence. The sensations, feelings, thoughts, actions, that arise from such an experience can be sources of joy; welcome news, a new friendship, love, music, kindness, conception and can also be a source of pain; unwelcome news, loveless relationships, music, hostility, death.
Without a wound, healing and growth cannot take place. All of the things we experience that cut into our psyche are sources of joy and pain, but both exist together and give birth to growth.
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