Gucci Exhibition

to mention about this corner of the room is the vertical plasma screen places on the floor, which is a very common thing that its artist does. The corner combines sounds, videos and photo records from social media accounts into the exhibition’s space.

After Lee’s installation, the audio guide tells me there will be an installation reaching to the third floor from 10 alternative and independent artists from Seoul, designed in collaboration with the museum’s curators. Before listening further, I explored a little bit myself to give my own impression. Next the guide shows me to a sort of passageway between two main rooms which now places me in a very dark grey painted room, which is a big contrast to the overall white painted walls in the other rooms. The only thing I see here is a corner with headset and an in-framed photograph of what appears to be an astronaut landing on some outer-space planet with several unexplainable features in the background. I am told that this petite space is a cultural one which the artists want to tell, through the headset, that land on the moon is actually bought and sold. The explanation of the photograph needs to make sure that what I see in front of me is a future way of seeing and living on the moon since pieces of ground on the moon are sold to people but are for now unreachable.

The objects I see around the first room are mainly just random places attributes. From a very old TV to a sand covered table with on top to what looks like several models of large, apartment buildings. The man tells me that this specific installation shows a different way of how the spaces work together, while respecting their mutual differences. We first deep into White Noise. The works are made up by four teams and museum’s curators who previously have worked with this space. One of the interesting things

The next room just showcases four walls with huge letters covering the walls, not forming a word and a plasma screen in the middle of the room. The artist, Martine Syms, here uses videos and imagery to showcase blackness. This specific artist already, with this specific installation, showcased itself in MoMa New York.

The room is called “d/p” and is an abbreviation of “dicrete paradise”. The gymnastics are done by choreographer and dancer Yung Jon Lee. The video tells a story of the body as an internal place, where meaning and function co-exist and from which we can never be separated. The last room I found worth to mention is called space illi, all done by female artists of different generations. They all share the same concerns about the nature of contemporary visual arts and put-on exhibitions. Their installation is made of tv-screens all showcasing dozens of different stories of different novels.

When moving on to the next one, I see various beautiful paintings that showcases that various possibilities of paintings as a medium. The work is painted onto old paper and are torn and scattered all over the room.

And with this last room mentioned, my visit to this exhibition was over. My overall opinion about this was that every single room, corner of installation was so different and interesting that I was eager to dive into it immediately. A major positive note with this one is the providence of an audio-guide in as well English as Korean which gave me such a better understanding on what I was viewing. I do think it is possible to visit this one without a person telling you the explanations and completely let your imagination decide that. Now, I did not cover every single room possible so I would make you also eager to go and visit this online exhibition. “No Space, Just A Place” is running from April 17th till July 12th 2020 on the Gucci app.

This wants to reconsider our attitudes towards paintings, which also is the oldest medium in the world of art, and to thing from more various angles we see and experience paintings. With taking a break from all paintings, framed photographs etc. I end up in a small room with huge screen to broadcast me a video. The video shows a person doing tongue gymnastics. I must be honest with you here, this vid

Seth Phillips

You probably open your Instagram every time and there it is, one of your favorite influencers has yet again posted another outfit look, workout routine or a picture of herself laying on the beach. Influencers have been a very big part of the social media era that we now live in and can make big earnings from working with specific brands or advertising products. But what if a global pandemic restricted travel blogger’s, gym gurus and several other going-out types to post their perfect pictures on the gram? Well, 2020 put this precise question in action with COVID-19.

With limitless outdoor activities and actions to post pictures of you going to the gym, laying on a white sand beach in Tulum or visit your favorite luxury store people have to be creative to keep their followers satisfied with what they see on their feed from their favorite person on Instagram. Without all the various variants of influencers there already are too many of, this pandemic created an opportunity for people to entertain the internet world with being themselves, do something funny or interact a little bit more with who follows them. A new type of influencers has reached the attention level of the daily user of social media platforms. People, like me and you, with or without any previous fame that adjusted this situation to their own persona being on everybody’s feed. Listed down are 10 people we loved to follow and see appear when we scrolled hours and hours down our feed while being quarantined.

1. Back in fall of 2019, Seth Philips (the guy holding the cardboards) and Elliot Tebele had the simple idea of hitting the streets of NYC with a cardboard in their hand saying: “Stop replying- all to company-wide emails.” After posting it on Instagram and having a decent amount of likes and shares, they decided to take it a step further and uploaded a picture of Seth holding another cardboard in front of a Friends billboard saying: “Seinfield is way better than Friends”. In addition to this specific post, a large following began to develop for the account. Now, eight months after the creation of the account, it has gained over 7.000.000 followers on Instagram. Their tagline is “If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” Since

then they all the time release statement-pictures relating to popular trends on social media, the wildfires that occurred in Australia last January, thoughts everyone has (ex. “Your meal doesn’t need a photoshoot”) and of course the 2020 pandemic. As a reaction to this, the account shared pictures of Seth holding cardboards saying for example: “We’re in this together”, “Thank you doctors, nurses and medical staff” and “Ok Covid, wrap it up” with likes per post easily surpassing 1.000.000.

2. @thelesliejordan When you hear the name Leslie Jordan, you may recall him from playing Beverly Leslie in Will & Grace and may have spotted him a few times when watching the different seasons of American Horror Story. But the majority of people now, will probably know this man from his Instagram account. His very easy providence of entertainment is something that will cheer you up and make you laugh instantly. While being self-quarantined, people are most likely to get bored very easily. This too was the case for Leslie and instead of watching another tv-show on Netflix or had another hour-long videocall with one of his friends, he decided to share his struggles and thoughts while being isolated from the world with his, back in the beginning, small scaled following. His videos quickly gained a lot of attention and to name just a few of the subjects; forgetting what month it was, using a large pillow as a an accessory and pretend you are Sia,... It is safe to say that Leslie has become the COVID-19 quarantine sensation, with many of his now over 4.000.000 Instagram followers calling him the “King of quarantine”. 3. @chloe_t If we speak about Chloe Ting, we speak about the fitness and body workout queen herself. Chloe Ting, who is in her mid-thirties, has gained a very large following over the past weeks not only on Instagram but also on her YouTube channel. Besides this she has a very popular hashtag on social media platform TikTok called #chloetingchallenge with over 120.000.000 videos using it. The reason why Chloe is considered this status is because when you watch her doing her workouts, she makes it look effortless and very easy. This is a very persuasive matter of fact that will engage more people to work out because the most frustrating part about fitness and other intensive activities is the effort, sweat, pain and soreness. Before confinement and people were still able to go to the gym or just didn’t have time to sport, Chloe’s YouTube-channel had just over 200.000 followers. At the end of April, her subscribers count is now over 2.500.000 with a weekly average of 660.000 new followers. This high number of subscribers also shows in views of her videos that easily get over the 1.000.000 per video. Her most viewed videos are the 10-minute work outs that everybody can do. On her Instagram page, with now over 1.000.000 followers, she posts her body regularly motivating us that we can do more, with sometimes just a selfie or a regular photo everyone could post on their page. After watching her so effortlessly working out, I put myself to the test with trying out three of her most viewed 10-minute work outs. With two work outs done, and the not so inshape condition I have, the third work out seemed too much to bear but I thought: if Chloe can do it, so can I. The difference between her and I is that she does this probably multiple times a day, which to me was a first try and rapidly left me out of breath but worth the try.