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THE ALLEYNIAN 710
Original talents Jai Singh (Year 12) celebrates the eclectic and haunting work in the Year 12 ‘Origins’ exhibition
Diverse artworks ranging from abstract photography and paintings to immersive and visceral installations were on show in the Store during March’s ‘Origins’ exhibition, with themes of fragmentation, fragility, fracturing and repair, discord and solidarity drawing in the viewer. Max George’s Seven Years used smashed sheets of glass and broken mirrors to create negative relief prints, aimed at investigating the ‘meaning of physical connections and disconnections’, while Oliver Sachs’ Fractured depicted the recombination, using adhesive, of broken ceramic shards from cups to explore the fragility within domestic objects, via a series of beautiful photographs. In Emin Huseynbayov’s Urban Flow , the idea of fragmentation was explored through the use of plaster and lightboxes covered in molasses, to demonstrate the movement of society, a ‘crucial part of daily existence and life for all entities on the planet in general’ and its imprint on society, a reference to the refugee crisis. The
use of plaster was continued in Leo El Asmar’s Witness , with the fragility of the material capturing the destruction and trauma of inanimate objects, influenced by the explosions which had taken place in Beirut, Lebanon. The exhibition also featured artworks inspired by the Holocaust Memorial Event which took place at the start of the Lent term, one example being Henry Hurd’s piece using sand to present the flow and importance of time. Each artist used the exhibition as a platform from which to catapult their A-level personal enquiries towards new beginnings, revealing a student body on the start of an exciting journey, ready to take on the social and political artistic landscape with hope, ambition and a sensitivity to the many encounters they face and have yet to confront, and reflecting Einstein’s famous advice: ‘Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.’
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