Some aspects of the show are strong whereas others I felt were struggling. The curator had taken some European paintings and placed them in the show just because they had scenes of water landscape which I felt weakened the show.
One piece in particular I felt the message was being pushed was the Maya Lin nail installation, I did enjoy the play on light and shadow and the time that was spent on it but the river message was pushed.
A great contrast to this is the second Maya Lin piece with the glass orbs, I thought this was a great contrast and resembled rain drops.
The Hans Haacke condensation cube had the PERFECT correlation and placement with the Maya Lin orb piece. The condensation on the top of the cube looked exactly like the glass orbs.
Another strong piece was the Iceberg bottle piece at the entrance of the show. It had caught the attention of everyone because of its play on 3D.
The last piece that I was able to relate to was the Atul Bhalla Urban Spaces photography piece; this photographer took photos of various places where water was accessed for the public. Though this is done under the theme of decay which is one I relate to in my own work. So, in seeing this at the show I was very pleased.
Overall I think that this show was done very well but as I’ve said before I thought some pieces were struggling to fit into the show (i.e. the Maya Lin Nail Piece) but the correlation and the placement of Hans Haacke’s and Maya Lin’s glass orb piece was absolutely brilliant and made up for the show’s few flaws. If I was the curator I wouldn't change anything but I would exclude the Maya Lin nail piece and some European water landscape paintings but everything else I would leave the same.
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