“A moment, suspended: this is what every photograph presents”; Sarah Charlesworth’s Conceptual Art exhibition at LACMA, titled Doubleworld, focuses on the manipulation of the world with photography, making photos another dimension in our reality. Many works in this collection were fascinating, but there are two that represent the polar aspects of this collection of works: Dar Robinson, Toronto and Nike. These works captivate the idea of photography creating another dimension of reality in our world and the role humans and photos have in this “doubleworld” we find ourselves in.
On the first wall in the exhibition, there is what seems to be a monochromatic blue canvas, but upon further investigation, a figure of Nike begins to appear, and the viewer is left feeling astounded that they ever missed it. Nike is…show more content… Manipulation of color is utilized in this series called Objects of Desire causing the object to practically disappear into the monochromatic background behind it. Charlesworth was interested in the use of images in our contemporary world and sought to “mimic the conventions of advertising” in this series with her bright saturated colors; modern society is bombarded with images and media in our everyday lives due to people centering their existence around their televisions or phones. Charlesworth believed that photography had become almost a second language and even become a world in and of itself. Minimalist artists aimed to “create works capable of provoking intense awareness” and Conceptualist artists believed that “the idea is the work of art”. Charlesworth seems to have morphed these creeds and sought to make people aware of how photography has evolved. The self-awareness of the objects and photography itself is similar to Magritte’s Treachery of Images, where he pointed out that his painting was just a
