Thu. 7th of October: 1st Thursdays - Vyner Street, London

Evening

This whole phenomena of galleries being opened in the evening in one street is strange and both logic. It’s logic because in this way you attract a lot of visitors at the same time because you work together. I find it strange because I wonder if it's still about the shown art works. Everyone goes in and out galleries with a beer, wine or a g&t in their hands. My guess of the average time that people spend in one gallery is about 5 minutes, you just take a quick look. How well do people look at the actual art work, is this a fashion thing to meet up with friends? Or is the art that the galleries show during first thursday of the month made for this kind of exhibiting?

But not every work that I saw was easy comprehensible. I think these kind of evenings are a challenge to the way of exhibiting, in a setting like this it becomes important how you present the artists work to keep the visitor focussed. Everywhere are frames placed onto a white wall, but the galleries that first pop in to my head after a evening like this are the ones that had a different way of exhibiting, or showed a very good artist.