Just a brief note on this. Whilst I understand that Sharon Boothroyd really liked this online exhibition, I am afraid I just do not get it. I agree there are plenty of fine, striking individual images, but I find it hard to see, at least on a first viewing, what is driving the structure and sequencing, what made it so good as a slideshow.
I think Boothroyd sums things up nicely when in comparison she praises the Sally Mann shows. The ability to stop, go back, linger, establish connections between individual works, makes all the difference. When viewing a physical exhibition I usually have a fairly quick go round first to get a sense of the structure of the show and what is to be seen, then go back and forth, across the grain and flow of the show, the better to appreciate what is there and make my own sense of what the artist or curator has chosen to show. I do not reject the idea that a particular flow has been purposefully set up to display the work in a particular light, and to a particular end or purpose, but I like to make my own connections, form my own views and conclusions as well. Needless to say, this also enables me to filter out stuff that does not interest or engage me, or that I simply do not like.
The slideshow based online exhibition simply does not give that sort of opportunity. It has something of the feel of one of those blockbuster art exhibitions where you effectively join a long queue that snakes around the gallery, everyone seeing the same things in the same order and without the opportunity to spend time with any individual work. That is something that I hate and is one of the reasons I rarely go to such exhibitions anymore. I had a similar sort of experience on a brief visit to Auschwitz a few years ago and simply could not stand the sense of being shepherded, herded indeed, around the museum exhibits without any choice of what was to be seen and in what order. Needless to say, I pretty quickly broke ranks!
https://vimeo.com/49855891
https://www.oca.ac.uk/weareoca/photography/online-exhibitions/
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