Recently, my mom and I spent an afternoon in the local museum. An exhibition just opened, named 'photography extended'. For the description of this exhibition, I'm going to use the description the museum uses: "this exhibition focuses on premeditated photography: work of Dutch origin that has arisen in a conditioned situation, with a preconceived plan and an artistic premise as its starting point." Some of my favourites are the ones that look like paintings from the 17th century, but are actually photographs of the photographers daughter wearing everyday objects as accessories, like a plastic bag hat and one that's made of bubblewrap.
Besides the photographs, there were also bags to be seen. Bags designed and made from recycled materials by high school students.They started out with a piece of fabric made by a graffiti artist and items given by local shopkeepers, like shoelaces, kitchen utensils, a shoe and corsages. They had to add an item or material that they liked. The bags were auctioned for charity.
You can find the museum's website
here.
