Ikon Gallery

So last Wednesday me and Sian got super-duper lost in Digbeth looking for Ikon Eastside. We finally found our inner sat-navs and found the gallery only to find it was closed til Thursday...ARGHHHHH how annoying!?!?!?! As we were close to the Custard Factory we decided to go and have a look at the Bodies Revealed exhibition to find that it was £12, which yes I know isn't that much but when your a poor student and pay-day is a long way away we just couldn't bring ourselves to spend £12 to get freaked out by the insides of dead peoples bodies.
Sooooo after all this walking we decided to head over to the Ikon Gallery to see what was on there. The first exhibition was called 'The Trample Down An Arable Land', it was a series of 6 videos that to be completely honest just completely went over my head. Normaly I would get annoyed with myself if I didnt understand an exhibition and would really try to get what the artist was trying to communicate BUT (and thats a big but) when I came for my interview for the foundation, Jannette told me that "you don't always have to understand art, you just have to appreciate it, and maybe later on in life, it will just click" so i appreciate the beauty of the videos and the sensitivity in them I just don't understand their purpose.

The second exhibition was by a Russian artist called Semyon Faibisovich. The series of paintings were derived from mobile phone photographs. The artist says they depict everyday life in Ragulyai a district in Moscow.
I thought the paintings were beautiful. From a far they look like photographs but when you see them closer it becomes apparent that they're paintings.