Midnight Mirage, 2007

By: Vanessa Perunovich, located at the Anne Tanebaum Gallery School.

My first reaction to this exhibition, before reading the description was it looks a lot like the last supper, and of course when I read the description I found out I was right. Initially shocked at the idea that this artist and these by passers were willing to pose as Jesus and his disciples, but as I watched it drew me in. I watched one woman dressed in multi colors and a gigantic hat, walk into the exhibit slip into the white coat and become one with the picture that I was seeing. I was really amused at this point. I observed this particular piece for a while.
I really liked this exhibit because the audience was able to become a part of the picture and it encouraged social interaction between the audience and the artist. It was also a very good display of consumption, and how consumption and social interaction relate to each other. The artist served a Serbian bread and bean dish which was supposed to suggest cultural and social exchange. I think the artist accomplished this, because culture was strongly represented by the duplication of the last supper and social exchange was represented by the audience becoming part of the image and interacting with one another within the image.