Found Nan Goldin’s work at Tate Modern:
I’ve always liked The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and it’s an inspiration for my two project before RCA, Emotionally Unavailable. I’m mainly interested in its exploration of human relationships, especially in terms of intimacy and loss.
In the afternoon, we accidentally went to another Gagosian Gallery:
We discussed how ACTS were made. And I guessed dye was poured into clear urethane block and gradually the urethane became solid. Jiao Shi suspected their value with such high prices placed in such a nice gallery. He said these objects were easily made and whatever object placed in this gallery would look more valuable. I didn’t really agree. Besides the ideas these object conveyed, I thought their value also included the artist’s labor, time, expense and failure. I thought art was not just about how complex it was, but more its ideas.
Then we went to Cristea Roberts Gallery to see Howard Hodgkin: Strictly Personal Part I:
I read some articles about Howard Hodgkin and I liked how he expressed his feelings and emotions through color and brushes. As the title Strictly Personal, many of his paintings and prints are meaningful and personal to him, shown by their titles as well while other people may not understand the relations. It’s also my motivation to do art, to express my personal feelings and emotions.
Eva Wang 