EXTRA CREDIT towards mitterm 10pts

Fotofest of Houston  is a model on so many levels, when I walked into the exhibitions I noticed that  the work is always high quality, multicultural, international, and provocative; the curatorial themes are fresh, thoughtful, and relevant; the exhibitions are everywhere because they collaborate with everyone, and those partnerships extend across decades because they are generous and professional; they honor the artist - by design, every participating artist is elevated professionally through exposure to curators, collectors, and new audiences, along rich history behind the meaning of each photo; audience members are enriched and educated by the exhibitions and programs. I chose Illusions by Tatiana Antonuk who is one of the young artists of the 21^st century, who describes her piece of art work as Reality, which is colorless with its grey sky, grey buildings, grey outerwear on the passersby. I believe that the
Events that happen very seldom are neutral because reality is colorless in an artist’s eyes. They are neither good nor bad, they have no color. Major part of life passes in a dream. Falling into a reverie doesn’t always mean wasting the time though>>. Inexplicable representations that would never appear in a real world may be born in a dreamland. Those bright, unearthly, magnetic illusions attract, inspire, seduce and reject. They make up for lack of impressions with themselves and become so tangible that you may feel a temptation to stay with them forever. This series is about it. It is how the person with a help of bright colors, warm tones and symbolic objects tries to transfigure his cold and shabby everyday live, every time deeper and deeper plunging into illusions and more and more losing touch with the reality.