Exhibition preparations

Many e-mails are necessary to prepare an exhibition. To the translator, the maker of text panels, the person organising exhibition invigilators. And much time is spent sitting the cafe for scientists - selecting photos, editing videos, eating toasted ham and cheese sandwiches.

So an antidote to all this sitting around is the gym. My heavily discounted summer membership allows me to drop in on unlimited fitness classes. Having put off my toastie in favour of the mellow Pilates Fitball, was amazed to discover the class magically transformed into hi-rev circuit training. The usual teacher is on holiday, and her replacement dropped the whistle from between his teeth long enough to say that while they would be using the giant blue balls for one of the activities, just for today, it wasn't actually a pilates class.

'Come on, you can do it!' cried the friendly Zumba teacher as she zinged past on the warmup laps. Her encouragement for me to stay was much appreciated, but on reflection I thought it best to conserve energy for the afternoon's photo edit. And for the evening's enthusiastically paced Dumbbell Workout, when my instructor will encourage us with shouts of 'We are a TEAM! Hip hip...'

'HOORAY!!!' we will all respond, while flailing one kilo handweights about at the speed of light.

After all, when mounting exhibitions one has to be able to lift one's own frames, however large.

Above: IBERS cafe. Below: one kilo dumbbells. Photos copyright Indigo Violet Larkin 2014.

 

 

Indigo Violet Larkin's exhibition 'land water darkness' opens at Gas Gallery / Oriel Nwy, Aberystwyth on 4 September. Private view 5 September 6-8pm, sneak preview video screening as part of 'Stories by Gaslight' evening of 3 September. Admission to gallery free; tickets for 'Stories by Gaslight' £5.