Rorschach Test imagery and Artist research

Original Rorschach Test cards

 

 'Mind Fields', marking the first exhibition in the United Kingdom of the work of Vivian Lynn (b. Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, 1931, d. Wellington, 2018).

 

"Our bodies are mediated by cultural codes, as are our daily lives. My interest is in dislocating and transgressing these codes in a way that makes them tangible. The different bodies, the biological, imaginary, socio-economic, political and mythic, that form a corporeal ground of intelligence and desire, are alluded to in my work"

"Mind field" Vivian Lynn 2007

Looking at the imagery and symbolism of the Rorschach test. combining visual, bodily type images with the decoding of the mind and mental state of a person. Looking at the work of  Vivian Lynn who has explored this idea and I first became aware of her work as part of the Silver city exhibition at the contemporary, also I did not know that this was something Andy Warhol had explored, interestingly he didn't realise that the Rorschach was a set range of images rather than something the patient makes themselves. interestingly its one of the most abstract of his works not relying on the manipulation of ready made images.