– Views and experiences from a visitor who likes to take photos with artworks at exhibitions
This interviewee is someone who likes to take photos with the artworks while viewing the exhibition. As the project’s stakeholder, he provided a very in-depth analysis of the behavior and we discussed possible improvements, which gave me great inspiration for the project. The following is a translation and transcription of the conversation:
I think that if you look at the exhibition and take photographs, first of all, it has an artistic value, then it has a commercial value, and then the two are kind of mutually exclusive, and then the two must be closely united. Well, the commercial value and the artistic value are both very important, if you are an art student, and you go and learn something from the work, you get inspired, you can even use it as your own thing. This is where you get the artistic value, is also passed on, and once you can pass it on by word of mouth, then I think it’s very valuable, and if you’re just like me, more only be subject to the commercial value, for example, its commercial value is to look good, it’s very impressive, it can satisfy my I don’t know what this beautiful stuff is, what it means, but I pay for it, I come to see the exhibition, some exhibitions are free, but even if it is free, I bring traffic, I think it’s a commercial value, so whether it’s a commercial value or an artistic value, it’s a value.
So I think that, well, most people will go and take pictures of it, take pictures of him in front of the exhibition, we can’t judge this thing at all, it’s not a wrong behaviour, or it’s not a behaviour that you can criticise. In my personal opinion, I don’t think it’s an act that you can criticism, but it’s a pity that people doesn’t get what the author want to express, it’s a pity! What I want to say is that the creator of art, the purpose of creating this is to transmit this. Artists doesn’t have to expect that everyone has to get it, right, because how many people can get it? If everyone can get to the works, then where is the value of your thing, right, it is very philosophical, I think so that I personally will not criticize going to the photo shoot how, because after all he still brings the commercial value, like I said before, but well, it is indeed a very unfortunate point, because that is. I can only say it’s a pity, it is also a very regrettable thing for society. but I think that as people’s aesthetics improve, including the popularity of education, it will improve.
If I have been inspired, I have an imagination, or I am particularly interested in it, that I will go to see the exhibition, I think you have to understand more about the visitors. They may be very busy in their lives and looking at the exhibition is a way of relaxing, they just want to see it in this way, no matter what purpose it serves, it is just as a way, that is, you take this way of looking as a way of seeing. People just wants to see it as a way, not to satisfy their purpose, but as a way, that is, you treat it in this way, does not want to have any emotional resonance with the work. I think it’s more understandable when I’m not interested in it, I don’t want to do any imagination, I just want to take a picture.
If we really want to talk about a solution, I think sorting out the visitors and splitting the schedule into two, so that the two types of people with different opinions do not interfere with each other, might improve the current situation.