Erwin Wurm and Bahbak Hashemi Nezhad

Erwin Wurm

How to be politically incorrect - in this series of work Wurm taps into international fears and paranoias and prescribed codes of behaviour. He uses humour to tackle serious underlying issues.

I feel this series of photographs works really well. I like how he uses humour and the "socially absurd" to seduce, entice and grip people, making them look closer at the image and trying to unpick whats occurring, thinking about something deeper and another context aside from it being initially humorous.

When i look at  Erwin Wurms work i am always reminded of the work 'orderly conduct' by Bahback Hashemi Nezhad. They are both looking at human behaviour in public spaces but from a very different view point in someways.

Bahbak Hashemi Nezhad - Orderly Conduct

The photographs included within the series of work, 

'Orderly Conduct' show a parallel view of the public space. the photographs reveal behaviours and characteristics that we all do. I find this series of work interesting in the sense that we all believe that we are unique and different in many different ways, however Nezhad's work proves us wrong in the sense that we conform to the public, by the actions in which we carry out. I find this work of Nezhads to be very similar to that of Peter Funch's work in the sense that they are both documenting the actions of the public and then manipulationg the photos in order to create a sense of repetition in the series. 

Peter Funch - Babel Tales

I find this series of work extremely alike the work above by Bahbak Hashemi Nezhad's - Orderly Conduct. In a sense, both photographers are documenting the public in their 'natural environment' and recording their actions, observing what they do and creating one image showing all of the subjects with the same action, for example yawning. I have included Funch's work as part of my research as I believe that he shows a narrative throughout his series of work in order to suggest that we aren't unique, we all infact conform to society by showing the viewer the actions that we all undertake on a day to day basis. 

The work of both Funch and Nezhad relates to my project for this assignment as it is looking at people in the city, although it is exploring their behaviour and actions within the space it is related to my project in the sense that i am interesting in looking at what happens after you remove the people from the scene, the repetitive scenes we see everyday in every city. What are the implications of this on our environment. Both man made and natural. And both man and nature have an impact on these.