Used my public holiday for a good old trip down to MCA to catch the last day of the Blocher exhibition. Deffinitely worth while! There is an incredible intimacy in her work, her subjects seem either entirely un-self-aware, or uncomfortable in a way so as to give a similar semblance of truth or insight. Blocher travels around interviewing individuals from all over the world, sometimes providing biting social commentary on issues like racism, nationalism, and wealth/poverty, and at others merely revealing her own profound humanistic empathy with the people she encounters. In regard to Art and representation, I think she is a key example- her subjects are speaking for themselves, and the video camera doesn't lie, right? But curiously, Blocher has edited her own promptings out of the footage and even the background in which the subjects sit has been replaced by a blank stock image. These people and their responses almost float in a timeless contextual void. But despite these efforts, we still come to question what subjective frameworks are creating this reality..
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