Breenspace

Kate Murphy

Breenspace,

From the first moment I walked into the space I felt a sense of emptyness and isolation due to the amount of empty space with the exhibition.

Once walking into the large empty space you can feel the isolation due to the white painted dull walls which have nothing on one side except a medium sized photograph which is placed in the middle of one wall. The other side of the wall are enlarged music notes. The painting itself takes a very smal portion of the wall leaving the space around empty. On the other side are notes of the words she had sung and spoken. They are placed along side each other evenly and horizontally.

Once walking into the theatre room the viewer participates into her reaction and feels automatically this depression within this lady who is placed standing in a theatre room by herself reading and singing the suicidal note.

Her face is not revealed to the audience only the back side of her body. The tone of her voice changes within the time she is spending reading and singing. The volume of her voice changes from high to low according to what she is reading from the letter and the mood she has encountered. She engages the viewer to be very depressed and leading herself to suicdal activity due to the apologies she keeps repeating herself to her family members.Kate Murphy has really shown the audience the love she has towards her family members as she keeps asking for forgiveness. The audience is left only with her reading and singing the note in a theatre room by herself with no audience watching over her.

Kate Murphy has really shown the viewer and has made a translation and shown the viewer that her work is personal and has effectively shown the viewer the depression coming across through the words of the note, the isolation and emptyness of the place.

I really enjoyed Kate Murphys exhibition compared to Jonathan Jones. Kate Murphy's exhibition was more personal and I think has more meaning as an individual artist and therefore I was interested into finding and knowing out more about what was going on in the exhibition.