Event 3

On May 30th, I had the chance to visit Judith Hopf’s art exposition located inside the Hammer Museum. As I entered the museum, I saw a white cubicle with different props that caught my attention. When approaching the cubicle, I realized that it was Judith Hopf’s art display, which consisted of a series of brick sculptures scattered all around the room and a compilation of collages hanging from the wall in a consecutive line.


The bricks were shaped into daily items that everyone could relate, children in particular. There were a ball and a wheel-backpack followed by a human-like sculpture which promptly made me consider the idea that millennials have forgotten about activities that fifty years ago were common and have stopped to practice them. The ball which was commonly used to play now has been substituted with computers and phones, therefore the material is made of represents its usage it modern day.

Attached to the walls there was a series of collages with anthropomorphized laptops. These figures had legs, arms, faces, accessoriess and hair, embodying a member of the contemporary family and also emphasizing technology’s alarming effect in society. Hopf’s display of her artwork guides me to understand that the sculptures were disturbing representations of the everyday human behavior and the tragic effect of technology upon them. Also in my perspective, there is a separation between past and present between the sculptures representing the past and the collages addressing the rapidness with which today’s world moves. This exhibition is a reminisce of our Technology + Art lecture using art to express a concern or even to use it as a warning of what technology is doing to our lives.