Sam Taylor-Woods Bram Stoker's Chair Photography.

These are a series of photographs by Sam Taylor-wood. They experiment with different ways of moving the body, I really like the energy in the photos. I find that the photos give off a strong emotion of happiness, jumping is often associated with this. When looking at this picture, I personally look at it as a struggle between the figure, shadow and the chair. To me it almost looks like an attempt to stand on the chair balancing at awkward and bizarre angles. I like the quirkiness of this. It also explores the contrast between weight and gravity. The shadows in the photographs seem very mysterious- there is a shadow of the woman, but not of the chair. The chair is directly 'informed' by the human body yet looks entirely different. On a recent trip to Prague I saw an exhibition with a series of chairs by Robert Wilson, these were also like Sam Taylor-Wood's photography because they were making an everyday object interesting by playing around with it. In Robert Wilson's exhibition he had played around with the standard shape of chairs and how they were displayed, for example one was mounted to a wall, another had legs going down in a diagonal way instead of vertical like the standard chair. I really like the concept of making an everyday object change to be more interesting using art like this.