Rarely during a visit to an exhibition of a favourite artist do you have the chance to listen to them speak about there own work and its personal motivations, however the exhibition offered a promising chance to do so last Monday at the Tate Modern. It was incredible to see in an exhibit of such scale its own creator walking amongst its blind viewers, totally unaware of who was standing right beside them, but after awing after such a beautiful self portrait of the artist in a prison mirror, barley visible to make out any real detail in his face, I starred wondering what the artist might look like an was pleasantly surprised when I saw its authenticity. He spoke about his work in personal way, focusing on what made him choose each photograph and why he found them appealing; his answers seemed virtuous, sincere and relatable, unlike when you here a critique concentrating on details that defeat its beauty.

The Exhibition offered an intense amount of reality to its viewer. As said in a film curated for the exhibition, “The work of Wolfgang Tillmans is not about separation, shock and Aw, its about wanting to do things together and see things together and not just seeing things for yourself.”. The message throughout is one of morals and truth; demonstrating the ever changing society he has encapsulated the International state of the past decade, taking inspiration fro technology, media, science, politics and youth to produced a somewhat documentary of evolution and I think he has achieved this with tremendous success. I have found his work extremely influential and inspiring perspective to help me move forward in my own work.