Final ITAP - Image & Text

The way a photograph and illustration is portrayed can depend on its context and could affect its attended meaning. Text in particular can be a way of interacting and make that piece of art by giving the audience something to think about. When a piece of art has a text meaning I like to first look at it and not even focus on the writing, so that then when I read the text I could either be pleasantly surprised or completely incorrect with what I interpreted. When I researched around for events and galleries that were currently on in Birmingham, there was an exhibition on at the IKON gallery featuring Nedko Solakov.

Unfortunately I never got to go as I missed the bit of research that informed me it was over November 13th! However I searched around for his work and wish I went now, his pieces are so simple and comical! For example this image (below) is two small silhouette figures and the caption reads “Death is following a man. He knows about her but keeps walking (not running).  Without the text the image does not make sense, his artwork is appealing because of its comic value of text against the simplicity of silhouettes.

Here is another one I also liked.

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"A Giant beast is doing his best to horrify a sleeping man. The man is confirmed that is having again a nightmare, that the beast is in his head.. The beast gets really pissed."