At the same time, I feel how dispassionate I am because I have not felt exciting, fascinated, terrified or uncomfortable, but pay more attention to the creation themselves such as the implication, background, materials, and even technique as well as to find a clue to link up all of works and logic to explain the relationship among them. When walking around the exhibition, I did not feel as a voyeur, probably more like a detective.
If we have noticed the each theme of rooms when we were viewing the works, and if we review the whole themes in sequence after viewing, we can find the intentional arrangement of the exhibition designer, Carmody Groarke, who try to narrate a long story about a surreal house to us. After pressing a “bell”, we enter into “the Freud house”, the place where is the dream begin from, which makes us to think “who I am”. In order to find the answer, we traverse “femme”, “panic”, “haunted” and “electric” rooms one by one until climbing up to the second floor and turning into real that offers us the feeling of “vertigo”. We still can’t find the answer and are puzzled about “presence” and “absence”, which arouses us original memory in “mother” abdomen and desire of “love”. And then we attempt to live in confinement like a “bird”. Finally, even if “concrete” gives a change to the house, it still cannot be escaped from the “blasted” destiny and we only can choose “sacrifice”.
My opinion hasn't been well thought out and is only for the reflective writing that helps me to record my each idea.
Finally，I would like to say that the buildings of Barbican Center fascinated me so much for their brutalism, which makes me think of my favorite architect, Oscar Niemeyer, who is good at constructing unconstrained and beautiful buildings with concrete. I really love concrete!
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