I'm a contemporary artist...

"Thank you mum"

So in all honestly it isn't what it looks like the photos actually represent what was an artistic piece, a contemporary artistic piece, for one of the modules I was taking. The artist a student from Libya wanted to create a piece that not only celebrated a culture but engaged the audience is Making it participatory (and delicious) art. Her mother had aided her in cooking the food, it was a way to showcase what people did not know about the war torn country that is Libya. She wanted to shed positive light on where she had come from and deviate from the ideas we had of the country.

We were given a complete creative freedom to create any piece of artwork we decided to. We had to be able to explain which movement/era or what artist had influenced our work explaining how it linked to any of the ideologies we had come across during the module.

With only one week to create something for my project, I decided to focus on the 2015 US police killings. I ended up producing a two part art piece one moving (a short documentation) and one static. Each piece represented all types of people that have been a victim of the killings both innocent and guilty. The art piece titled 'this is not a selfie' was reminiscent of a piece by Hans Haacke titled 'institutional critique' and explored similar aesthetics and minimalistic features and details.

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