ACCA

ACCA - Pat Brassignton - A Rebours

The title of the show means, "literally" - against the "nap"
Or figuratively, it means, "backwards"
or "wrong way", or "against nature", or "rubbed the wrong way", "uncomfortable", "to get the wrong idea".

I think appropriate for the show.

The Pink she uses? its "nasty", because its the color of burnt, chafed or infected flesh, and she uses it against black and white, or very little other color.

The whole Psycho thing, I wonder if Pat is off kilter, or repressed, or dealing with people in her life that are experiencing some kind of psychological disorder?
A normal thinking person just doesn't conjure up these kind of weird concepts without reason. It's twisted, off and unpleasant for sure. It shows that repression is unhealthy, and may induce strange deranged behavior that actually reveals indirectly that something is being repressed. She may want to express some things more explicitly, but is attempting to make it more ambiguous.

She uses space in a way that leaves the subject at the focal point, sometimes turning the image from its natural view point to make it look like something else is happening, to mess with the brain or to create discomfort.

I do think there is a place for things to be revealed subtly and slowly to bring an element of surprise, or gradual unveiling in design in general, but all according to the purpose of the design. Some things need to be immediate, while much advertising is done in such a way as to create curiosity in our minds so that we will stick around to ask questions, or to wait to see the end result, but generally we want to be rewarded with a good thing.


The ACCA building architecture itself is interesting more so from the outside, than anything I have ever seen inside of it. It makes one look and wonder what is going on inside, and the expectancy of something can actually diminish the experience once inside. It seems there should be more to it, and because the outside is so impacting, you expect that on the inside as well. The sculpture display... perhaps combined with more, may have been ok, but what was in there and the combination of it, in my opinion, was a bit sad.