is best known for his readymades, created by covering everyday industrial objects such as refrigerators, tables, pianos, and furniture with an impasto layer of paint. He appropriates ubiquitous objects and images in order to reposition them as elements in a strategic critique of consumerism, deeply entrenched visual habits, and art institutions. Fiercely critical of the fetishization of the art object, Lavier considers his work only fully realized as an exhibition—as a constellation of works that generate meaning exclusively through their interrelationships.
Yoko Ono
"pushing visual art to its optimum conceptualism; it would open up a whole new horizon for the visual arts." http://www.a-i-u.net/yokosays.html
Erwin Wurm inspired:
For this task we were told to pair up and then write a instruction that was Erwin Wurm inspired, for example making sculptures out of our actions, which was then collected and swapped around the class. We received an instruction which was to 'do the opposite'. I decided to lay under a chair, and also pose to make it look as a sculpture rather than just an action. All of the images were cropped to just show the blue background. I found the task enjoyable as it was giving us a quick idea of what the topic was about, and how we should approach it, and being inspired my Erwin Wurm, it was to do it quickly. I used an app called photoscape to edit and crop the images, I changed the saturation, contrast, brightness to bring out the blue background and define the image more.
My instruction: Show your beauty without using photographs of yourself
When I received the instruction I didn't really see any sense in it, I felt like it was a difficult instruction, and trying to think of something straight on the point made it seem so difficult as I was so eager to know what I wanted to do. Until I asked my friends (outside of photography) they gave me some ideas, and made me look at the instruction at a different perspective, as I always questioned how could I even show my beauty without using photos of myself. My initial approach was to take images of things I use or wear, but instead of taking images of things that I use to show my beauty on the outside; such as my hair straighteners, makeup, clothes, etc. I chose to interpret beauty, that comes from the inside. In the end I chose to capture the people in my life, my friends, family, pets, that surround me on a daily basis, and they are those who shape me as a person, their influences, characters, them as a whole, portray me as a person not just looks but personality. Which I personally believe your beauty shows more when your personality shines. I chose to take portraits of everyone, and I chose to make it black and white because I felt it gave the images more depth and meaning, because of the range of tones of the greys. I eventually really started to enjoy this task, I liked taking images of everyone, and taking images of them without them being forced, smiling naturally and 'catching them off guard'. For example, when I ask to take an image of them, they'll instantly act awkward or try to pose, but when I tell them to smile, they would get nervous and start laughing and that's when I take the picture as it isn't intentional at all, and it's capturing them in the most natural way. If I could improve it I would of liked all of the images to have the same lighting, but I still really like that they're in different scenarios and at different moments, because it shows my everyday surroundings realistically.