Sentimental in Berlin Blog: ArtCube Competition: Elizabeth Baynton's Work

Friday, 2 May 2014

ArtCube Competition: Elizabeth Baynton's Work - Please keep safe

If you don't yet have plans for the weekend, pop down to Bricklane to see the 30 carefully shortlisted artists' works for the ArtCube Student Competition.
Students' masterpieces will be showcased at Second Home (Hanbury street) alongside with live music, food and other already established artists' pieces will be sold too.

The 30 students were chosen out of hundreds of applicants!
The competition after this has 2 parts.
1) Students should promote ArtCube via their work using social media giant Facebook. People could vote for the most liked artists via ArtCube's Facebook site. The winner of course for this part would be that artists who ends up with the highest number of likes, which would count 40% towards the final measure.
2) This is getting hotter comprising 60% to the final measure and most importantly: curators from Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery, White Cube and alikes would review the masterpieces.

I not only chose to feature my friend's, Liz Baynton's, work, because she is my friend, but because I immediately felt I could relate her art to myself! 'Please keep safe' the name of the installation implies a sentimental inner feeling. What shall we keep safe? I keep safe everything! I am not a hoarder, but for example anywhere I travel I always keep all the smallest brochures, tickets, receipts and put them into a scrapbook type of thing...so whenever I look at them again I can easily bring back those memories reliving them in the current moment!
Strangely...I thought I was the only one collecting all my receipts since I arrived here to the UK (2007)...I had a stack of those old receipts from shops, museums, eateries. Some has already acquired a vintage look and feel then finally I decided to throw them away at the end of last year, if only I knew what my Liz was up to.
Well I still put aside into my little book the most important ones, which certainly weaves my tale...if one wanted to look at them...

Artist: Elizabeth Baynton
Title: Please keep safe
Reason: ArtCube Student Competition
Where: Bricklane area, Second Home, 60-80 Hanbury street
When: This weekend 3rd May - 5th May 2014

Background info:

What do you do with your old receipts? What story do they tell? There’s so much functional type and text in our lives that we discard every day, like old receipts, ingredients labels, tickets. They tell us what we have, what to do, where to go – but is there more?

If we looked harder, could we see what tale they are weaving for us? Using type cut out from old receipts and black and white photos, I have constructed excerpts of narrative for the viewer to follow to piece together their own story.

Weave your tale