A very “vivid” installation

Everyone needs a bit of clarity, some space to express one’s creativity and become more vivid from within the core of the artist.

 When I learned that Vivid was going to held at the same venue that recently housed Synesthesia several days earlier, I was hoping they don’t pull the same mistake the previous exhibit did by preempting the opening time way beyond the announced time. Fortunately, the set time this time around was 7pm, which is more than enough to prep everything up. I actually arrived an hour earlier, which wasn’t much of a problem really because I don’t have to wait as long as before.Plus, I got first dibs on getting myself a cupcake so that’s a good thing!

Vivid plays on the theme of neon lights, which is apparent with how the venue looked inside, neon lights of blue and purple providing ambience to its surroundings. I was told by one of the leading exhibitors behind Vivid, Abi Resurrecion, that the original idea was to go with something that has to do with idea of blackouts, which I found a bit similar to the theme pulled off by Prologue. Nevertheless, they all did deliver, even to the point of getting some really nicely done cast photos of all 13 exhibitors that’s befitting of the neon-lights theme.

Among the works I like was probably the set pieces made by onethat highly reminds me of this anime series I used to watch before, Monster, where in the closing credits, they would show some really creepy children’s book character drawings. That show made a good impression on me even though I wasn’t able to finish it in whole because of its really dark storyline.

All in all, this is probably one of the best exhibits I’ve been to, no doubt about it. So I say congratulations to the whole team behind Vivid.