The Museum of Modern Art.

It’s quite funny how we keep mentioning and reference this museum, and I haven’t been there before! So it’s quite a journey and an experience to be at the MoMA.

Entering this modern building and dropping off my supposedly too large backpack, I turned and faced towards the entrance of the MoMA. I was greeted with this exhibition:

 

It was strange. It was awkward. Yet if you didn’t focus on the exhibition, the objects and the floor didn’t seem that out of place. The “spacemen” almost created this feeling of being in space, as if you were in space and visiting the MoMA. It was strange stuff, but I’m sure this is what “modern arts” is all about.

I made my way to the second floor, where something like a movie was just about to begin. I sat down, and was greeted by a myriad of black and white pictures. It faintly reminded me of Rorschach test, these “inkblots” were open to interpretation. I sat there confused, not knowing what to expect.

And then I was greeted with the main character:

He was nameless, but the story around him was fascinating. His roommate who lived him, in contrast, was well groomed and respectable. The main character was impulsive and disorganized. The main character is tortured by being unable to leave, placing all the blame on the roommate. Was it justified? The roommate pointed out that he was free to leave whenever, and that the main character was holding himself back. The main character lashes back that it was his roommate who twists his words. It was like watching a ping pong game, the ping pong bouncing back and forth. The roommate even tried to make a move on the main character when he was at the most hysteric. Who was right and who was wrong, I really don’t know. But the film did an excellent job displaying the conflicts we often have in our lives.

The film was made by Mark Kelly, titled “Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #1 [A Domestic Scene]).This was 1 out of 36 film projects he intended to create, all of them centered around the gaps created by suppressed memories.

It was certainly a once in a lifetime experience trying to piece together the main character’s life, and I’d highly recommend checking that exhibition out when you’re (hopefully) back at the MoMA!