Okay, here is my sharing about Amalia Ulman’s artwork “Excellences & Perfections”:
So, I got into this thing called “Excellences & Perfections” by this artist, Amalia Ulman. It’s not your typical art piece, you know? It was a performance, but like, a long one, lasting for months in 2014. I thought I would be just staring at a painting, but that wasn’t at all what I ended up doing.
I started by reading up on it. What is it, and why did Ulman do it? It was all over Instagram. I found out she pretended to be this “It Girl,” posting pics and acting like a totally different person. And like a lot of people followed her!
Then I went deep into Ulman’s Instagram. I scrolled through all her posts from that time, all those photos she put up during the performance. It was weird, seeing her change over time, from a “cute girl” to a “sugar baby” and then to a “life goddess.”
I began to feel kind of strange. It felt like I was watching someone’s life, but it was all fake. I started to wonder how many people online are really like their profiles. It gave me a strange feeling like I’d been tricked.
- I spent hours just looking at the pictures and reading the captions.
- I started writing down my thoughts and feelings about each post, like a diary.
- I even tried to copy some of her poses and take similar pictures, just to see how it felt. I don’t know why I did this, it just felt important at the time.
After doing all that, I felt like I understood the artwork a bit better. It wasn’t just about pretty pictures. It was about how we act online, how we want people to see us. This was something that I’d never thought of before.
My Thoughts
This whole thing made me think a lot about social media and stuff. It’s kind of scary how easy it is to pretend to be someone else, you know? I think Amalia Ulman was trying to show us that. And I gotta say, it worked. I am still thinking about it, all these days later.
It wasn’t just looking at art, it made me think about my own life and how I act online. It made me question a lot of things. I guess that’s what good art does, right? Makes you think. Anyway, that’s my experience with “Excellences & Perfections.” It was a wild ride.
